Though we have not yet received the full sum of
£3,500 required for our Militia experiment, we cannot doubt that the remaining £600 will be subscribed, if not before the experiment is begun, at any rate before it is completed. We think, there- fore, that it will be consistent with the wishes of the subscribers if we take the first step of calling together a Committee to superintend the financial side of the undertaking. It will be remembered that in our original article last October we proposed that every donor of £100 and over to the Fund' should be a member of the Committee, and that in case he or -she should not be able to attend, a friend might be named to act for such subscriber. Further, we proposed that the Committee should have power to add to its number any person, whose services might be thought useful. Accordingly, we now propose to hold a Committee meeting at the Spectator - Oifice, 1 Wellington Street, on Thursday next, February 22nd,
at 2.30 o'clock. We trust that all the donors of £100 and over will attend and help in the work of arranging for the experi- ment to be proceeded with. We shall also be obliged if those gentlemen and ladies who have not yet forwarded their sub- scriptions will kindly do so.
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