PATUMAHOE AND MAUKKU. (FROM A COREESPONPENT.) July 28

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3753, 29 July 1869, Page 5

PATUMAHOE AND MAUKKU. (FROM A COREESPONPENT.) July 28

SHIRKERS. — These are peihaps some of the most contemptible men we have to deal w.th; men who, nob only in the tiunn of danger, but in the time of supposed danger, according t» their own weak aud timid imagination, insUal of standing side by side with their fallow seltlm, qii'etly and st-crctly sneak effwith their own families »nd leive otiiers to do what they can; and jeh in every cops I suppose there are a few such to b? found, and although they deserve punishment for their mean cowamicp the corps is undoubtedly be'ter without them Th cc or four of these have walked off fiora Patmmah©' and thus as they think escaped, danger and military duty, Kut perhaps they may fiud theirs'ilvcs despised wheiever they locve. 11,I 1 , is this c induct also which sjoneially lerttU to a pani'j in a i.eiyhbonrhood, and, when onio indulged in, reason d^pnr's from the people, an ! they leaUy know i.ofc vrhab they are about aud bewmi> friuhtcncd at thcr own shadows. Although our diahich ha'i sent forward 20 to 30 good men and true, we have still an (fficeut forco with volunteers ivud militia of 40 men under arms, ready at h moment's not'ee to shoulder their rifles and march at tho bugle's call. Eufc it is to be hoped that thi« stats of things will soon be put a stop to, for it will have a most strious effect upon the industrial operation of every ini^hbourhood, throw numbers ot men out of employ, and ccst the sttlers a deal of money. The whare of one of the men who left the district was destroyed by fire last night, whether by accMeut or otherwise I cannot say.