Meantime the volunteers and volunteer reserves are still doing fine work with a rare spirit. One of the most pleasing features of the situation in the Colony at present is the! cheerfulness with which a big number of men, some of them not too young either, have done without: sleep while doing guard and have afterwards faced business calls during the day without flinching. And the grumblers have been very few. Yesterday they had a field day; and a field day in weather about as hot and sticky as it was in June is a test of endurance which few men would make from choice. Yet these men met the test with much courage and hardihood, and their work is deser-
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