ALL ABOUT THE WAR.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 82, 8 April 1867, Page 3

ALL ABOUT THE WAR.

To the Editou of the ' Evening Mail'. £ IR — On takiug up the Examiner this morning and reading the leading article, I had curious visions, mentally. I imagined I was living in an enemy's country, and I even thought about looking to my gun and powder-horn. What! all our soldiers gone, and the war as brisk as ever ! Hau-hau poles all over the country ! Tanas aud other unmentionable Maori expletives for gatheriugs in every paper, and "cold missionary on the side-board !" Shade of honest Captain Cook ! what are we about ? Are we sowing again the dragon's teeth ? Where is all the "flour-and-sugar" gone? Ah, Georgie Grey ! Tewpai te iitu-. But it 41 won't run it," the amusement of fighting for fun is a little too expensive. The last straw breaks the camel's back, and the penny stamps have done it. Turn to page 3 of the same Examiner, nnd it reads, sir, like a leaf out of "Cooper's." "On reaching the brow of the hill," &c. prayers were read out of the prayer-book by oneMitatlikairo, who informed his '" following" that in all times of danger they '' were to put their trust in God." Baunockburn! ahem ! ! '"One feature of native warfare is that the laua is followed by a number of women, who commence cooking as soon as possible, so that when the affair is over the food is about ready." Admirable commissariat! Pill high the bowl with Samian wine, We will not talk of themes like these ; 1 see their glorious bright eyes shine. " One Hau-hau was wounded in the leg, but got off;" and so ends "the war at Ilotorua," and my peroration. A. Y. Z. April 6, 1867.