A sum of £10,000 has boon placed on the estimates " to provide for provincial officers temporarily employed, for payment of com pensation to provincial officers, and for con tingent provincial services."

We hoar that during the cadet firing yes terday, the lad who was marking at the butts had a narrow escape of losing his life. Definite information we are not in possession of, but from what we hear, we believe that the lad who was marking 1 came out of the butts just as one of the cadets had fired, or was about to do so. This phows the great necessity of a bugler being ou the field, aud also the utmost care on the part of the marker not to leave tho butts until assiued by some means that he is not exposing lutnself to imminent peril of his life. We are far from approving the common practice of voluuteers firing at a raugo without a bugler to warn the marker ; neither do we believe in allowing mere boys to occupy the butts. It has been endeavored to keep the matter a secret from parents, but as it is one in which many of them are certainly concernod we consider it our duty to acquaint them with these facts. We hope that a bugler will be provided on the next occasion, aud sonw ex perienced aud more cautious person stationed at the butts, the necessity for these altera tions having become so strongly apparent.
