CAMBRIDGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 346, 21 December 1864, Page 5

CAMBRIDGE.

[vitOSI Otnt OWN COHUESrONDENT.] Colonel Moule, of the 4th Waikato Regiment, was here to-day, Irom Hamilton, on a court-martial. One fp • »l ,rlSo "°J' B . tried was connected with the gambling tifiuu reported m mv lust, a corporal of the aid Jtiegirnent, who is now reduced to a private. I here was a change in the weather hero to-day • nice warm showers all the day. ■Hie body of the man drowned a few davs back, MWu" 1 * 5 - >u Germuu Company, was found at ilamitton ; an inquest is to bo held to-morrow. This is tno second man drowned hero.

The ' Gundngai' came up late last night, with, a mail irom Ngaiuawahia, and also a large quantity of commissariat stores; sho stays hero all to-day, and Knii. 08 to " morrow morning whh a mail tor Auck- " ne-.'er rains but it pours" is an old saying, and very often a true one, for to-d iy wo liad two ministers horo, an army chaplain and a Presbyterian minister trom. lo Awamutu. Altogether wo had about iivo or six parades, for a day of rest.

" , Dec. 12. • i undagai left at 5 a.m., and the • Waipa' arrived hero in the afternoon about 4, with a largo quantity of stores for Messrs. W. Y. Young arid Kirkwood. It is reported up horo that by the next trip she is to bring up someof tho Soutliern members. ' la t their object is in coming up here is not said at present.

lho majority of the moil hero appear to bo vorv dissatisfied ; in fact, I think thov are almost tired of soldiering and pipeclay, and as they do not get their land, and no one seems to know when they will, they seem to think they are being humbugged • and if they wcro offered a free discharge, I believe move than half would take it. In iact, almost every stoaiuboat that comes up brings up thrcu or four substitutes, and sonic pay as much as £10 or £12 to get aw.iv. i think thoro is rather too much guard-room, drill, and pipeclay, to suit military settlers, a ereat many of whom are old diggers and sailors, a rather queer class of customers to deal with.