Every day one meets fresh ovidence that the life of a soldier has become a hard-time existence. About the only patients at the dispensary who ask for a remission of-the few leash charged for medicines are the soldiers, who often are quite cash-Nese. The captain of one company /has requested a month's grace for an Jaccount of five dollars for an in-Patient. No wonder that an outbreak of hostilities is always the occasion for looting. about the only chance the poor fellows. have of realizing a little cash.
Recent heavy, frequent and rather untimely rains have much interfered with the fall planting at which the ppbole country is very busy these ays.
Te new. crew for H.M.S. Dio-mede, which recently returned home from the China Station, for service
picked. men, and all. volun New Zealand Diving ae, elt popular was the call for volunteers that the crew could have been made up half a dozen times.
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