DRURY. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 11, 8 December 1863, Page 4

DRURY. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

December 7th. A moue than ordinary quiotnoss prevails here at present, and as for news I know of none. Tho usual routine of camp life is all that I can speak of. large convoy has gone to tho front this morning • j might say this Ls almost a daily occurrence. Tn supply tho wants of our soldiers who aro now ca .,,"_ paigning in a country where nothing is to be found to sustain an army is an undertaking more neces-.irv than many aro uwaro of. The immense number cf pack, dray and waggon horses and bullocks—over ono thousand, I believe, —in use here and at tho front, may give your readers some idea of what it j 3 to provide for the sustenance of such a small araj and its followers. For tho U3O of the animals akuu about 100 tons of pressed liay is exported. to bo delivered over to the Commissariat this week. This supply is obtained from the sister colonics, at great cost of time, labour, and money to this country—tho transit by sea and unshipping again to our inland waters —the conveyance by boat-i to Drury—tiio discharging and storing—tho loading and sending supplies by road to the front. Verily all this is a stupendous undertaking to the minds of ordinary New Zealand colonists. This, however, is but ono incident of military movements, which is just given to show that there is sometliing else to do than march some thousand troops right after tho Maori* and give them a good welting. To go at length through tho various branches of the service would bo more than I could do at present, hut tho immense sacrifice of money and life to which tho Colony is put must be borne in mind and placed against the enemy's account in our ultimate .settlement with them, when they come to pay the price of the insurrection on which they have so wantonly and barbarously entered, without provocation, and with every reason to be grateful to the colonists, who have suffered ho much and so long at heir hands.