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New Zealander, Volume XX, Issue 2139, 13 June 1864, Page 3

To the Eliur of trie Nw-Zas.».£.i.Ni»i3B. Slit,—l have frequently read in your journal accounts of the destruction of settlers' property by soldiers and militia, and, of course, all the blame was laid on the shoulders of the rank and file. Such, in my opinnn, is not the fact, as the following will plainly show : Tliajllev. Morgan's house, at this station, was compete (in almost every essential) when the troops arrived here, but is now, 1 am sorry to say, a comp!e:e wreck, nothing being left standing bat the bare tool. So also has the whole of his post and rail fenc- ««;,' been pulled down. But was all this done by the rank and file f No ; as the several doors, windows, hues, and bedsteads in the officers' huts will testify. The fencing wu a pulled down for firewood for the bakery, and, consequently, by order of somebody in authority. Cjl. Haultaiu, Coin.nanding at ICthikihi cm vouch for the correctness of this, as on pas ing •ruin ti.ere to here, he asked the fatigue party if they ha I orders to pull it down, and seemed quite surprised and shocked on being answered in the afirmative. By iu--ertiiiijjthis you will oblige, Yours, Sec, Justice. Transport Camp, Te Awamutu, June 9, 1864. "P-3. —Of course I don't mean to say those things Were taken by the officers themselves, but by their 'tonruntj; and probably without their knowledge. kstUTUM.—In an article in our Saturday's issue headed " Contradiction," the word Southland was by an error of the press substituted for Scotland. Cu-ruKE of Suspected Burglars.—At an early flour on Saturday morning, police constable Thompson, "Who was on duty' in Queen-street, perceived an unusual in Mr. Darby's (Thistle) Hotel, he thereupon aroused the inmates. On searching the premises, a fellow named Thompson was found secreted in the cellar, which he had entered by the trap-door. As other ""idiviiiiiids, with whom he was connected, were suspected «f concerned with him in the burglary at the ■Belfast Hotel, and in other affairs, Mr. Commissioner A "ughton issued a warrant for searching the house of a Wan named Nicklin, with whom he resided. The Commissioner himself, and some of the police force, proceeded to thi.j house in (irej-street, wnere they secured the persons of Nieklin, his wife, son and daughter, with two ledgers, named Burns and Lovement, and a quantity of articles which it is hoped will throw some light on the *pre3ations which have been lately committed.