QUEEN'S EEDOUBT. (FROM OWN OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3753, 29 July 1869, Page 4

QUEEN'S EEDOUBT. (FROM OWN OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

Tub volunteers and militia stationed here have now got somewhat better quartern. At parade on Friday, Major Lusu, the officer in command, called for volunteers to go to the Front, wh^u all the Mauku Forest Rangers present — about 20 — agreed if led by their ensiga — Mr. James iMellsop — to proceed wherever they might be required ; and B<>rno of the Waiukußilie Volunteers, underOaptam Henson, also rolunteered to go forward if led by that energetic officer. It is well ti> sea men thun reidy for timei of emergency, although for the good of the countiy it is hope 1 that such services will not be required. But such *otB on the p*rt of working se tiers give the lie direct to scribblers afc Home, who, when seated in their easy chairs in the editorial room, cau vilify and traduce their fellow-countrymen iv JN T ew Zealand who are performing duty which th< y wou'd shrink from, and probably refuse to perform. Kveiy effort should be made to treat our volunteer thoroughly well while on duty, and thus wipe off if possible some of the unpopularity of such service for the future. About 20 of the Waiuku men, and all tht married men from Patumahoe, are returning. It seems a pity that other men should be marched up this long distanco at the very same time numbers are returning ; but I presume the uninitiated cauuot fully understand military tactics.