The Evening Star. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 584, 23 November 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1871.

" For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do."

Now that the midsummer holidays are approaching it is desirable that some steps should be taken to utilise one or more or them to some purpose both practical and pleasant. It appears that iho usual runes will not bo held, and liv opportunity should be seized for substituting something far more beneficial in results, to wit, a grand Volunteer demonstration. There cannot be a doubt that these musterings of our defenders, and the pomp and circumstance of mimic war have the effect of deepening the interest in Volunteering among the general public, nud consequently contributing to its permanent success. The effect which these displays have, especially on the minds of the young, is a fact not to be ignored, and judging from the results already observable, it is evident that no difficulty would attend enlisting the feelings of all oil'1 rising generation in the cause of the defence of the country. A grand review and sham fight on New Year's Day would unquestionably bo attended with even greater success than that witnessed on the birth-day of the Prince of Wales. The first of the New Year is par excellence a holiday, and every one is seized with the instincts of va abondage. Out of doors' people will go, and business for the nonce is slavery. On that day, by prescriptive right, pleasure rules; and if our military authorities only take advantage there is an opportunity reculy to their hand of giving" another great, impulse to the cause of military organisation. This review, to be thoroughly effective, should include all the Volunteer Companies in the province ; and we feel confident that the citizen soldiers at the Thames and elsewhere, will gladly avail themselves of what will inevitably be a general holiday, to swell the grand muster, and show that Volunteering is indeed a power in the couutry\