At a banquet at Christchurch, Captain Cotton said he thought volunteering and the habits of obedience and self-control it involved, would in time give a death blow to youthful disorder and larrikinism. There was no doubt that, sooner or later, the colony would be attacked by some foreign foe; therefore it was absolute y necessary to be in a state of defence, and for this practice in soldiery was absolutely required. A poet gives his reader the shivers with the line: “Gold swims the moonlight cn the snow” The moon must have been very full, else it would have taken a slide instead of a swim.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 17, 21 July 1887, Page 2
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