CAMBRIDGE.
[fi;om orn own cohhespokdent.] November 18th. This last few days, owing to the heat of the sun and the numerous meetings of eomniarades coming in with tlio detachments licm Pukerimu and liiiikiriroa, and several other good excuses which men iind for getting initiated, there has been, I am terry to sny, a good deal of diunkenness about the camp, which annoys our worthy Colonel very much—and as the officers had reason to suppose that sly grog selling was going on to a great extent, the stores of Messrs. Simpson and W. J. Young were summarily closed ; but on enquiring into it, it was found to be nearer home—as on a search being made, a quantity of spirits was lound and seized in the sergeant s mess, where it is said it has been sold to the men. The sergeant in charge of the mess was at once placed under arrest, and is <o ho tiied by court-mm tiul tomorrow. It does not teem just the light thing for a scigeant to be tho means of a man gettii g diunk, ami tho next day peihaps being a witness against 1 im.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 334, 7 December 1864, Page 7
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