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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1998, 6 February 1907, Page 4

I Our volunteer system has too long been the sport of parochial politicians for some good thing to bo evolved from it. AVe have found corps raised j for local considerations and allowed to j remain ineffective on the register, j AVe have seen, staff officers receiving tlie consideration denied to the rank ; and file, we know of bad blood in so- ' called military circles, driving the best i men from the ranks of the volunteers and retaining only the most blatant and ineffective.—Reef ton Times. | Lord A\'olseley lias written two letters to Lord Woyinss on the possibility of the invasion of England. The following are some of the most never have an efficient Army during peace, and sho must therefore accept the rebuffs and calamities which are. i always in store for the nation that' |is content to follow the breed of cowards who usually direct her great I affairs. . . The day will come when she will violently and suddenly lose her former fighting renown to such an unmistakable extent that the lucky fishwives will march upon I Downing street, and, if they can i catch its usual inmates, will* rend them. . . One party is as bad as i tho other, and 1 hope and pray that when the national misfortune of a great defeat at sea overtakes us, followed by the invasion of England or Ireland—very possibly the latter—that. John Dull will turn and rend the jawers and talkers who prevent us from being prepared to meet invasion.