NATIVE VOLUNTEERS IN INDIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 44, 20 July 1885, Page 2

NATIVE VOLUNTEERS IN INDIA.

The question of admitting natives to the Volunteer Corps has been prominently the public during the last fortnight, and has derived additional interest from the state of affairs beyond (.the ; frontier. The immediate V exciting cauße;of the present discussion .has been the action of Major Branson, command? iug the. Madras Volunteer Artillery, m vplermitting four native gentlemen to join his battery— a. step which is said to have met with the disapproval of Colonel Boss Church, the Commandant of the Madras Volunteers, but to be generally approved the European members of the corps* ? The general question of the adtnission of natives is attracted much d'scussion m. the newspapers, and some 400 influential native gentlemen of C»K cv tta have petitioned the Government to accept their services as Volunteers; The existing rule is that while the formation of separate corps, or even companies of natives is not permitted, there is noting jio prevent them ioinirig tbe ranks with the. .European fellow-citizens. — Evening Rictridard. ■ ;