However, Col. Banks has suddenly changed front at last, presumably under orders from head-quarters. The Hon. Mr Jennings interested himself in the case of the aggrieved men— both those turned out of camp on Saturday and the fifty who were waiting to get in — and the result of his representations to the Pre mier is that the thirty rejects were invited by advertised District Orders on Monday morning to a further shooting test the same afternoon. Moreover, it is understood that if any fail the two lots of men will ballot for the vacant places.
This, at any rate, may lend to mollify the men's feelings. At the same time, it seems rather singular that the notice of the farther test should be so remarkably short. The notice was only inserted in Monday's Herald, and the men who were failed were ordered to parade at three the same afternoon for this further test. On the whole, one cannot help sym pathising with the men, and imbibing the opinion that their treatment by Colonel Banks was highly inconsiderate, to say the least of it. Conduct like that would go far to quench the very, laudable spirit of patriotism that fires the breast

of our young men and impels them to' make personal sacrifices in order to peril their lives by serving their Queen and country in a foreign land.
