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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 563, 30 October 1871, Page 2

THE PKINCE OF WALES BIRTHDAY, AND THE AUCKLAND iiIFLE VOLUNTEERS. To tho Editor of the Stau. Sir,--The coining field-day, the 9th November, is anxiously looked for, but I wish to draw the attention of those who proposed to get up the field day in honour of the above to. the fact that such is not celebrated in any of our largo military stations at home. I htivc been in the Curragh camp, Ireland, when there were 10,000 troops, in Aldersliott. camp when there were 30,000, and Shornciiff camp when there were 6,000 troops, and such an anniversary was never kept, up ; bub in the meantime, if it is to be the case that this field day is to take place, I hope the commanding officer "will allow the men when marching at ease, to do as is allowed in the camps abovementioned —to trail aims, slope arms, carry arms, or any way the men think fit, so long as they keep in the ranks. Now, on the last field day, when marching to the domain through Pamell, while uri china; ut ea*e, the men were prevented fro::: singing; Such is allowed in the British armj when on the march, and singing b:iml3 arc got up in all tho camps above, to i'i:it when the band of a regiment is not piayhig, the UiCp can amuse themselves by singing, and in many instances tho officers ohovna w'ih I'.hrir nion. Hoping that we will not hr > - m-• from amusing ourselves when i;.. . • !•.> Onc-treo Hilly I am, &c, ■'. r:>Eiwi-. :r Camp, Hants; "COURTSHIP .'SO MAH&IiGKE." To tho Editor vi Jlu Evening Stae. Sir, —A rather, cool pie -c of assurance on the part of the Editor of tiie Morning Neivs is committed in to-day's issue of his journal iii the re-printing of four columns of a lecture on the above subject, delivered last week, on the ground of " a few inaccuracies having crept into the report of the lecture, and, iv consequence, he has been induced to ie-print it in a corrected form." Save the mark ! Why, tho lecture, as corrected, . actually j bristles with errors of evory description. It is.a muss of them from beginning to end. Ihe text of tho various authors quoted is perverted,' and the schoolmaster—l should say reader —is abroad in his spelling in nearly every other line. (I may here! remark that the.said spelling seems rather a difficulty, and would recommend that the proprietor presents each member of his staff with » shilling pocket edition of Johnson's dictionary.) Considering that a report of the lecture has appeared in both tho morning papers, as well as your own evening issue, I think the Editor, of the News, if he must re-publish the lecture with a view to its obtaining a greater amount of publicity than was afforded in the other prints, might, at least,. have been as good a3 his word, and have corrected "the few inaccuracies" detected even by himself, and thereby have given a little colouring to the' lauie excuse offared fcr depriving his readers of halt" the amount) of intelligence usually afforded them in his inestimable paper. As- it is, he has at;empted a bit of " fluking," which, won't wash,, unless, he I favors the public with a third re-print, minus tho present "few inaccuracies," so that one: can hand it for perusal to 1113 family wi hout any danger of all preconceived notions in tho matter of spelling being weakened by the examples contained therein.—l am, &c , Aeous.