ENCOURAGING TO VOLUNTEERS!

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 115, 16 May 1895, Page 4

ENCOURAGING TO VOLUNTEERS !

1 ■* — TO TM aOITOB. -mß™.-.??m B ™.-.?? otbor p .7£ s . of , th « universe, out-slde-of this sunny "Britain of the South " Tolnnteerinsr is enoouraged, and it is generally reooemsed that when a- man is exempt by civU .appointments from serving in any military oapaoity, .he becomes tie truf "SeS,,* 11 "fefP*! 7. buckles on his accoutremente, and valiantly goes forth to do battle in grim earnest for-lrfs- adopted countryin tbetronblons times of barbaro^ua Hanhauism and otherwise expends * lot,of vita? eneigy in the oolongs betterment. * Does he not so •bjpome mnmstakably-:*' 'good settler and Ohivalroas yoHntßer,r«ad?-sKonld he not" Bur, be ti-eated and. encouraged as suoh and receive come tavngiWWibeneflt arising therefrom f Aye V I heariyon say. But in many o«es whnt» has -be« r the 'ste'mef nHy"in>" morions recompenfl#fl;.The"iniide üba&bg lus-been knocked/ 'ont of ohiTalrj: and national ardour entirely, and we find brbkenoown, aged volunteers, without land orooon-

nation, in th°RO glowing times of peace "haracterised by mi n of more rncnt arrival, w'ao took no part in those anxious and oritic.ll periods, as " ne'er-do-weols " and " out-o'-works." Those unfortunates arc striving to establish their righteous claims for jnst consideration, but arc ouolirod by un corps de •nilitaire, who have done nothing whatever for Ntw Zealand but clamour and reap the jolden harvest of those who valoroualy aud manfully fought and struggled in the early days of settlement. O temporal O mores! I am, &a., HIBMAUNGA. 12th May, 1895.