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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 343, 14 February 1871, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TO THE RESCOE. William Jesskr (Joope, formerly Captain 7th Fusiliers, sends the following to the Standard: —" I see by your paper that, ' though the standard of the army lias been reduced to five feet four inches and a half, and medical examination is practically dispensed with, recruits cannot be had to fill up the gap caused by the dismissal of some -23,000 good and seasoned soldiers.' I may be able to suggest a means of adding a considerable number to the British army. I have just landed from New Zealand, which, in eoinmou with our other Australian colonies, is just now suffering from great depression. At the beginning of the. year I could have raised on the Thames goldfield, in the Province oi Auckland, for service against the Maoris, 1,000 men who had seen service in the field, either in the regular army or the colonial forces. If a regiment were raised in Wow Zealand under thesaine conditions as the 100 th, or Royal Canadians, was raided in Canada,

and called the New Zealand Regiment, no/ only should we secure 1,200 picked 'and seasoned mew, but a great denl would be don* towards healing the sore which New Zealand' undoubtedly fe^ls at the treatment she receired from the mother country inner late rliffioulti eg and towards binding to us instead of sererine a limb of the Empire, which the new doctrine of nationalities shows will some day be valuable. I hare no doubt, frnm what I hare heard, that Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide,and Brisbane would each furnish a regiment, bin I can only speak positively of New Zealand having personally ascertained what I state to be the case. Indeed there would be no diffi. culty in raising more than one regiment."

-icnerco so liberally reposed m him --fort J on his part promises, that, while conit' ■to supply a discriminating public withl 8 vine article, it will be his constantV 6?" civility of manner and bJert^S^ profits to still further merit a oSEX&. their generous favors. ""«rooe of j AT For Freight or Passage, apply to 9. iff. SMITH.

A UCKLA^D NAVAL VOLTJN2\. . TEEES. The MONTHLY INSPECTION will take place THIS (Tuesday) EVENING, at Fort Britomart, at 7.80 o'clock. E. LEROY, Lieut. A.N.V. February 14, 1871.