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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1738, 2 May 1906, Page 2

The Sydney Telegraph tells the followj ing amusing story of a volunteer camp j incident : — 11 In the dead vaßt and middle j of the night, as Horatio would have it, 5 a young Boldior stood on duty at the • Liverpool camp. He leanod on his gUD,. and peered through the night, yearning, I He did not yearn in vain, A heavy footfall disturbed the silence. The blossoming Alexander was in action, and ready for the worst, Ho challenged the intruder. A gonial voioo replied that • everything was all right, and it was a ' i lovely evening. But the future Hannibal did not regard the prooeodiDgs as a sceial gatheriog; it was not a timo for any persiflage. Ho demanded a sign. Tnen the unknown declared bitu-\~ self, Ho was a local constable. But heroes in khaki are not to be overawed * by the representatives of tbo puny oivio power in blue The policeman was • pealed to for more information a> hie presence there. Ho simply firod - he felt was a broadside into the str ears of a coming Wellington, > I e my beat, young man ’—and it seem really, this reply was worthy of Wai ton. But, after all, the most trui polioeman in tbo wide world is no r for the young sold er on sentry f^—_ first time, surcharged with ideals asT@lte%._ precious duly—and backed up with a guu and glistening bayonet. Before that military zealot, standing there, gun in hßnd, pale and determined, the oivio power fell with a crash. The constable could not give the countersign, and so the young hero took a-tio-i N.t to b* too brutal about the subs quent proceedings, all that ii’jort he s iid is tn >t he mu the constable in, Fir two hour-* u too guard tent the po ioeui wu bio seriously consider tbo romark-.bl • pet ley of milbary methods ; then, souse e\-pianatious having bel li made, b- was in.riled, lull of knowledge about countersigns, ty resume his ' h;ut,"