REMOVAL OF THE TROOPS.
By the arrival of the s.s. Wellington we learn that peremptory orders have come out for the removal of the 18th from this Colony—the Commodore having received instructions to concentrate without delay the regiment in Auckland, preparatory to its embarkation for Australian Colonies. Very shortly, therefore, no Imperial soldier will be left in New Zealand. Surely “Great Britain,” as she loves to style herself, must be rapidly approaching her decline and full. At all events she shews a want of humanity which will ever be a blot on her fair name, and which cannot fail to lower her in the scale of nations. At a time when every mail brings intelligence of one or more dreadful massacre perpetrated in a British Colony, the inhabitants which emigrated on the supposition that, being British subjebts, they would continue to live under British protection —at that very time the homo authorities withdraw from the Colony every British soldier, and leave a handful of colonists to defend themselves, how best they may, against hordes of blocd-thirsty savages. Such an act, we will venture to say, is unexampled in British history, and must make the much vaunted British flag look very contemptible to the eyes of the other nations of the world. — 11. B. Herald.
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Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 184, 17 July 1869, Page 5
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