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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 10, 4 December 1863, Page 2

Voi.vsn:ni:s prom Otaoo.—Yesterday afternoon the men who in-rived by the * Albatross * from Dunedin were marched from the Queen-street wharf to the Barracks, under the command of Ensign Owen. A\ e are glad to see that the volunteer enthusiasm iB not yet. spent, and that an attempt made bv an inhabitant- of this city covertly by letters in" the Australian press, to influence the people of other colonics and provinces from availing themselves of tl»o liberal oilers of the Government, has signally failed. The body of men who have arrived from Otago appeared to be of an orderly and roapectablo class, nil inference which is fully borno out by the testimony of Captain Clarke, of tile 'Albatross,' wlio gives them tlie highest. (ios->il>!o character. ' MoVnt K.ni:\ Koap.—A meeting of persons interested in the toviWiUion of this voad commencing at Prisoner's Hill, will beheld tomorrow, at half-past four o'clock, at liie Thistle Hotel, Qiieeu-street, for (lie purpose of considering the lust, means to be fikeu for making the above road payable for drays.