THE "SPECTATOR" EXPERIMENT IN MILITIA TRAINING.
pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SP ECTATOR."1 SIR,—As it now appears practically certain that the needful funds will soon be fully subscribed, the time has come to commence some necessary preparations, so that there may be no avoidable delay after official sanction has been obtained. I fear that, however willing the Army Council may be to assist us, there is little chance of suitable quarters being found in any barrack now vacant. May I therefore ask your readers to indicate any school, building, or institution at present tenantless that might be suitable, and which could be lent to us gratis by the owner, or hired at a reasonable rent, together with twenty or more acres of land around it P Possibly the owner of some large house now lying empty might feel disposed to lend it at a nominal rent, subject to all damage being made good. Such a loan would be the equivalent of a very handsome subscription. It would greatly assist the object I have now in view if some of your contemporaries in various parts of the country will kindly reprint this letter, or, at all events, publish the gist of it Meanwhile it is very important that intending subscribers should come forward as soon as possible, in order that the training may be commenced under winter conditions, and thus prove the efficacy of "winter training" in the interests of the Militia, and also as a means of dealing, to the national advantage, with the great question of the " nnemployed."—
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