THE VOLUNTEER CORPS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 285, 18 November 1862, Page 5

THE VOLUNTEER CORPS.

(To the Edtior of the Daily Times.,)

Sip-.—Allow me through the raeiJieim of j'oiir wMeJycucnlarw! paper, to lay .before the yubiic tbe tr'-Mtintnt I h»ive re<eiv«d at ttie hands of the offlciai> ot tuuDiuudiii Hills Y«.hnne*rs.. Having at the request of iMr\junor, Captain and A= jufant of the ainresaid cor s,drilled them'when' tirst organized, with a promi.se to be recompensed for my services, which has not b<en complied with, 1 consider that i have been unjustly dealt wih under these Mr mi instance*.

B ;ore the detachment of H. M.'s 70fh Keet lan.l.din L'imodiu, I drill d the squ>.d on the Ifc.i H.iii,tlire« evem. gs a week durir, ? the-first sea>ou, atter uavmg done my days' work, which I consider justly di-serves a recomj ense for tf c time I have lo« in their service. W h«-n last season a s ryeant of i W /utk Kegmieut was engu^d to d.ili them, he pofc tinsquad whick I had previously drilled, wiih the exception of a few new arrivals, and Mr Junor was kind enoush to {rive me ihat-which is geneialK termed the awkwanl squ d. wlncli of course wagiving the credit of that which I had began to the ot th*> 70l1i Eejdment, who has been awarded the sum of Islb for his services ; whereas I have be; jn awarued the sum of Ll2 10s after drilling them two sea>Oi;s. "

At the r quest of Mv Junor for me to send in an application for the situation of Staff Sereeant, I forwarded to mm Ihe recommendations I rt-eeived from t eomcersof the regiment I left ; also a it commendation which the Volume -rs gave to that gentleman tortJ;e purpose of fonv; rJin- to Auckland for the (rovernoj-'s auproval, to which I have had no satistactoro answer, nor my own recommendations returned to mo, after a period .f at least eighteen months. Hoping .you will find a space for this i», your valuable columns, I -beg to be, Sir, Your most obenient humble servant, John Wilson. •, H , .. . Lees-street, Dunedin. 17 th November, 1862.