QUEEN'S REDOUBT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 282, 7 October 1864, Page 7

QUEEN'S REDOUBT.

[moil OUB OTO COKHESI'OKDENT.] ti <tv > October 1. J lie iioncer, steamer, and also tho ' Gunda«ni,' arrived hero yesterday; tho first with a detachment or the .Royal Artillery, consisting of 1 oliicer, 1 sergeant, aud 30 guuners, and two 12-pounder Ann, sti'oiig guns; the second with three companies of tho ri 'K>nieut, from Te Awamutu, consisting of about -tO ofheers and men. They halted here for the "'j i .' UU ' nurc ' lle<l from here this morning at eight o clock,and they are, as it is understood, bound f»r J aranaki and Wanganui, for the purpose of making •a road irom Xaranaki to Wanganui. The men are all very much elated at theidea of making a little extra to their present pay, which leaves them very tittle out of Is. per diem after paying for rations, &c" and 1 have 110 doubt that tho 50 th regiment will use all their energies to distance any other regiment in their work, as sinco they have been stationed at the Queen's Redoubt they have nearly repaved the inside ot tho redoubt, and also in front of the redoubt, and what was once a regular quagmire is now a verygood road. 'lhey will bo very much missed lifre, ~ > " fc I believo that the 50th regiment glory in tho title of being the pioneers of the army. Ihero is also another great improvement about to be made. Mr. Wnme, who lately occupied the iJellast Hotel, in Princes-street, is about to build an hotel on ground where Mr. Maclean's house now stands, but instead of erecting in the same spot he will erect it in a better position (as I think), at the corner of the road, and I liave no doubt that he will be able to obtain the larger portion of tho custom on tho Great South Road on this point. As such an establishment has been very much required here, tho quantity of passengers, both civil and military, that pass both up and down daily, not being able to find accommodation.

livery tiling here now looks prosperous; daily you see the settlers cultivating their land, aud it is hoped that it will remain so, ami that the war will not bleak out hero again and drive the settler from his home, after toiling for the last six months, and his crops now springing up.