Our correspondent "Tipperary" voices an old grievance of the volunteers, namely that they would like to hear little more of the public band at parades and camps. When the question was last raised 'a bugle band was formed, but the volunteers, especially the infantry when they have a long march hoxe alter field exercises, feel that they have a right to expect the more frequent attendance of the public band. There are of course, voluntsers who prefer no band at all to ons which serves up the "same old tune" time and again, as was the case a few years ago. It is difficult, we know well, to combine the claims of Sunday concerts and of the volunteers, but it should not be impossible for the band to recognize corps parades as fixed engagements, put in an appearance at camp, and play really bright marches. If international—susceptil pro-
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