COLONEL SIR JAMES E. ALEXANDER, IN ANSWER TO "L," OF THE SOUTHERN

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2188, 26 July 1864, Page 5

COLONEL SIR JAMES E. ALEXANDER, IN ANSWER TO "L," OF THE SOUTHERN

To the Editor of Cat Dmli/ Southern Cross. Sir, — I li.ivo pi^t seen the Sotmir.nir CV.o«s of the the ,'3id Febinaiy, and I am much obliged by the favouiaMc opim m cxpiessed in it by ' L." of my lxto publication, " hu-i-'ents of the Maoii "Wai of 1860 01 ," aKo foi his kind lemaiks rcgaidmg myself, cxeep'mg always Ins op'iuon tint I am " shatteied" by long seivicc 1 beg to dmy thi«. Cei'lamly I hive, duung 40 yeuv," &eivn.e m the four quxitms "giow u gicy under the shadow of the helmet, " but it T evei \isib 3STe\v Zealand .again, I pioposc to challenge " L " to ude, mil, or row, or to a bout with the glow-, foils oi smg'o- < >tioks It i« tiue tluit, fiom too much gymnastics, Iliad inflamed the 'km of the a'll.le, though ne\ er on the sick hsb foi \t , but the voyage loundthe Hoin pub it all u»ht, aud I am not picuaiCvlto lie " veneiable" just yet— bye and ];3 r e 1 liope to be, if spaied. When I left, in Augnsb, ISG2, all seemed cpiebon the W.iikito, and I Lxnieiifc to see a renewal of tlie contact in New Zealand, and suchhav.is-mg waifaye; but theie .aio very al)lc clnets .it the head of afFiirs, and actne and enevjretic troops — le^ulais, nulitia, and Volunteer,— to luing, with the nivy, matters to a conclusion — I t i list at no ih*-tanb day. In the meantime, 1 shall be glad to leceive, for the new edition of " Incidents^" any instances of gallant ennduet dimng the operations, and will duly iocohl them. — I am, ke., .1 E. \i.c\ VNDEn. Westei ion, Bi uis>c of Allan, N R , Apul 2?, ISO-t