Light Horsemen for N.I.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Norfolk Is., Dec. 9.

THERE is a proposal, through the columns of our little weekly paper, to form a local troop of Light Horse —to be richly accoutred and lavishly paid and captained —we believe by Mr. J. A. Mac arthur-Onslow, at the present resident here, and a member of a well-known Australian family.

Seeing that the island is only seven miles long by five wide, and that the able bodied youth, upholstered and equipped according to individual fancy, already spends about a third of its waking hours ranging the roads on horseback, it is dif ficult to see what would be gained by mustering them expensively in a body and manoeuvring and deploying about the island en masse. They would be poor defence against any enemy attack from the sea, and the hard-up community at large is speculating as to what financial resources would be called upon to pro vide arms, equipment, and uniform.