PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM.—SIXTEEN THOUSAND MILES.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—We bear from Colonel Loveday, commanding officer of the New Zealand Public School Cadets, that a lad from Onehunga, near Auckland, has been selected to represent New Zealand schoolboy marksmanship at Bisley this summer. He comes as the guest of schoolboys in the Mother-country. We expect him to arrive by the s.s. ' Runic,' which left Table Bay on Saturday last, on her way to London. May we appeal once again to your readers to help in the hospitality, and to subscribe towards the provision of a " Spectator Tent" at Bisley P (A tent " houses" twenty boys, and the inclusive cost per caput, for transport, rations, and training, is 16s. for the ten days of camp.) The presence of a Cadet from the most distant of our oversee dominions will do much to help in the linking up of British schoolboys throughout the Empire. Cheques should be crossed and marked "Hospitality," or " Spectator Tent," and sent to me at 42 Sun Street, London, E.C.—I am, Sir, &c., R. J. E. HANSON, M.A.Cantab., R.N.V.R., Hon. Sec. "Lord Roberts's Boys."
[We hope Dr. Hanson will be as successful as he was last year in obtaining a Spectator Tent. We gladly subscribe £5 to so sound and so truly Imperial a purpose.—Eu. Spectator.]
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