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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 212, 10 September 1867, Page 2

The Times state that much dissatisfaction exists at) Aldershott among the corps that have served iv New Zealand in consequence of a reply given in Parliament to -the -question as to whether any medals were to be awarded for: the New Zealand wars since 1845. The 65th Regiment .. served in . these wars and received no -marks of distinction, except the Victoria ; " Cross, won by two or three men of the X corps. The two other corps vow in -A-klershott, - and which served in those wars,. are the; 68' th "and 70th Regiments, and also we" believe, the lst battaliou 12th, _the -2ndbattalion 14tb, the 2nd battalion •l 18th,'. the 40th, 43rd, 50th, and 57-th Regiments. Captain Vivian had given notice '-that he should call the attention of the "".House,. shortly after. Whitsuntide, to the •^services of the British troops employed in .-the late wars in New Zealand, and would vVjhove a resolution on the subject. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that in consequence of the unsettled ..state of affairs in Ireland, the Government were reluctantly compelled to the Irish Reform Bill until a jlmore favorably opportunity. A petition from the Cape of Good Hope against'" the ''''proposed' withdrawal of the JBjrftish troops from that colony, has been presented to the House of Lords- by the Duke of Manchester and led tb somediscus..sjjojn_j ,in- the course bf whicb_ the responsibility of advising the measure yvas frankly assumed by the Earl of 'Carnarvon, who essv no reason-why the : 'Gape should 1 be , „e£plEßfed from a burden to which Canada, Australia, and. New. Zealand, were liable. The annual charge for the maintenance of &£h;e troops. in the colony ampunteditp over. , .£3oo^oo, and to this»the colonists con-tributed-merely £70,000. • A&'ftMZVi 'i&yyiyr. *.v -lyXr y. ; _