STATE OF THE VOLUNTEER, FORCE.
The field officers of the Volunteers) have adopted the report of the sub-committee that that force, as at present constituted, is totally inefficient against foreign aggression there are no sufficient means of checking insubordination, and the present system of promotion is based on wrong principles ; and concurs in the recommendation of the Commandant, that land forces should be composed of s, body of men raised on the principles of a militia. SINGULAR DROWNING OF A BOY. A man and a boy were drowned in a quarry water hole lately at Brunswick under peculiar circumstances. The boy ran into the water up to his arm pits to escape a beating, and a man followed to bring the boy out, when both disappeared under the water, and were not seen again. One body has been recovered.
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1691, 20 July 1875, Page 2
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139STATE OF THE VOLUNTEER, FORCE. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1691, 20 July 1875, Page 2
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