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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1072, 12 October 1883, Page 4

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to a -eiierpublished in the £u:-.a.---'. ‘rum ;Helf correspondent, jfV Gam;r::n, whojias been in - Madasopae months, the Hovas: are fuUyiiidetermined» to play a waiting game, and blockade the French in . garrison,;, rThe and some, are already 'clamoring; reinforcements necessary for a march '-on the capital. That, however,; is' a' f seribus business. Mr Cameron, tfelijks/ that, the Hova troops— 12,900 in number might: offer a formidable resistanceifwell led, and if the French a march to'Antahanal rivo there is' some danger‘that English susceptibilities might be dangerously excited/ •; It is grotesque no doubt that the.Koya warriors should march into action to the tune, “ There is a happy land, far.' 1 -far awaybut, grotesque though it may he, that fact constitutes no fftnall 1 link 6f sympathy between them-’ and the. thousands of good pd<Sse Wh'6 sing that hymn every sunday^ai,they; subscribe their pence for V • .A ; , correspondent of the game-paper, writing from Sydney under dab&q|une ; 7V gives an account of a journey l through in the Course of .which he. says :—“ A day Or two to my departure I wit- - nessed a review of one of the crack regiments' of the Hova army. Accompanying'- 'the ‘ reviewing General, a JHtnce’of‘the Blood Royal, we found the battalion—eight hundred strong—- ... drawn ,up in a line .on a pleasant distant some two miles from * tbdicky. <f Dressed in white, and armed wUhtiJißemingtohs, kept scrupulously clteUiS»d'4rf- gb|)a’ , otder, T they looked a >■' ndff’-ii’nsefyiceable body of men:* Perwere as we rode jacks, fand. they. ‘presented t': saluted the Prince with a. ; 'r'■ precision and smartness that betokened ■ ” di«»pJine and drill. Of' troops such* asM f'saw, : the 'Hovas possess some ! v . tweßffr thousand men. • Then there are ~ a&'id|ny morp arraedwith old muskets but drilled, and an untold,! “ . hqst ofeirregulars. The regulars have ■ Jeatnedimuchiofthe letter of European yetliave {ailed to comprebend its spirit Stilly they could very t v'easily, in the hands of a competent become & sufficiently formidable