OLUNTEERS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND WAR.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 90, 15 September 1863, Page 3

OLUNTEERS FOR THE NEW ZEAL AND WAR.

(From the Age, September 20 ie spectacle presented at Spencerit on Monday morning, seems to have a a new impulse to the volunteering ■few Zealand. The ollice of Colonel was yesterday crowded with candii for enlistment, and the applicants br the most part men whose previous luct is a guarantee of their future illness. In addition to the number Ay reported (472), upwards of seventy tives were enrolled yesterday, and of them of a class well qualified to er the service required, being comd chiefly of miners, laborers, and rs, whose previous occupations have ed them to toil ancl fatigue, and made i "tough and ready" lor any emer■y; or who possess a knowledge of handicrafts as will make them inable as settlers. Not a few of the can*s are men who have formerly seen cc, or seen acertain amount of trainin tho militia, volunteer corps, or 1 brigade. The list also contains a ber ot cooks, several clerks and bookers, and one or two tent makers. c learn that, up to Monday night, Capbkene, at Bendigo, had enrolled 100 nteers lor the war; and on Monday yesterday several were also enrolled tstlemaine and ßallaarat. The followis a report of the speech— accidentally ted in our yesteiday's issue— made by Jillon Bell to the volunteeis who on day last, embarked for New Zealand • Beers and men of the Victorian Conmt,—l wish to thank the Victorian nteers, on behalf ofthe Government colonists of New Zealand, for the ipt manner in which they have come ard to aid that colony in its difficul- . New Zealand requires at this time t>e strong hands and arms she can o-et. 1 glad to see that so fine a body of men volunteered already from this place, re is one point on which I wish to say Tvvords. Letters have appeared in Melbourne papers, the writers hich, state that the Government of Zealand is not able to fulfil -ontract which it has made with you. ure you that the Government has not B,np its mind to make the offer to you sh it has made without anxious "and ful consideration, and a full conviction s . ablllfc y to fulfil its own part of the am. One thing, indeed, is quite true, the Government has not got at this tent possession of the land whicli is ed to you. The ] and is still in the is ot rebel natives ; and we trust to you your military comrades lo hold by the sot your arms that territory, which will swatter allotted to you by Government. |is land which we have Jong tried to -Q by peaceable means. We have en-

deavored tpcolbhistftlie cphritryj and introduce the 1 arts of - ciyi Hsatiph among the natives without violence, arid with every YadVanfageYfo thenar ';/•: W^eY should ;ne v er have thought «of taluh^|lni< land- by force if they hacl not niade warttpon us, and did ..not constantly threaten thrives of the women and children of our peaceful settlers. ' It is not only the colonists and colonial Government who are engaged in the present plan. of military settlements — the Governor of New Zealand is a parly to that plan* to which we have given our cordial assent. It is his and our opinion that nothing can now secure peace in the country bf New Zealand but the establishment of sti-Ong military settlements in the interior of the country, arid it is to form such \settlements that we have invited you. *Yout own commander in this war wili be Colonel Pitt, whom you all know and appreciate ; and you will serve under a general whose name is illustrious among the band of Crimean heroes who distinguished -himself in the glorious victory ofthe Alma. _ have no doubt that you will perform your duty, by strict obedience to your officers; and I, in the name ofthe Government and colonists of New Zealand, promise you that we will not fail in ours. Remember, that as soon as you land in New Zi^land, >ou are soldiers, as amenable to military law as we who are already in arms there ; and thai strict discipline and obedience will be required from all. I hope the arrangements on board ship will be satisfactory to you, and that when you land on the wharf in Auckland you will find that these arrangements have been punctually fulfilled. I now bid yon farewell till we meet in Auckland ; and I can only say that I am proud to have sent such a number of men from Victoria." Three cheers were then given for the Queen, and three for Colonel Pitt.