MALTON COMPANY NATIONAL RESERVISTS. l're TVS EDITOR Or THZ spscuros.1
SIR,—The Spectator was so largely concerned in bringing the National Reserve into existence, and takes so keen an interest in all that concerns it, that I think the following facts will be of interest :—At 6 p.m. on August 10th twenty men of this company were ordered to join the Territorial Battalion at Scarborough on the following day and report themselves by 11 o'clock if possible. Two of the men live some distance from Melton, and therefore could not receive their notices until the next morning. All the other eighteen men left
Melton by the 9.30 a.m. train for Scarborough on August 11th. When the facts are taken into consideration—that they were under no legal obligation whatever to leave their homes ; that they were all in good and permanent situations, and nearly all married; and, further, that the notice given them was so extremely short—I think it will be generally acknowledged that their action is worthy of all praise, and, as an example of the strong patriotic feeling pervading all classes, confers no little honour on their town and district.—I am, Sir, &c., LITE CAPTAIN R.A.
(Oncer Commanding Halton Company National Reservists).
[Well clone, Melton! We are delighted, but not surprised. —ED. Spectator.]
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