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Evening Post, Issue 117, 24 June 1865, Page 3

A very amusing difficulty has arisen with the Bendigo volunteers. Some of these gentlemen, on their return from the review, got boisterous, indulged in bad language, and other improprieties not quite in keeping with the character of gentlemen. A fellowpassenger sent In a complaint, but the volunteers deny the charges, except to the extent of a very little. But they have statad a grievance of their own, namely, that they were compelled to ride to Melbourne in second-class carriages. Really this is very puerile. Is the Government to keep firstclass carriages in sufficient numbers to carry three thousand volunteers ? They allege that their social position entitled them to ride first-class. When citizens don soldiers' unifform, social position is merged in military rank, and most of the Bendigo volunteers are, we suppose, full privates. If it is an indignity for them to ride second-class, pray what class ought the officers to ride in ? The protest is so ridiculous that Colonel Anderson will fittingly punish the gallant superfines if at the next display he leaves them at home. Second-class cairiages are good enough to swear in. — Melbourne Leader. A sight was witnessed on Thursday morning at daybreak from the Picton Jetty and from the Waika.wa side of the Sound, which almost defies description. On both sides of the beach and as far as the eye could reach, the shores from low to high water mark were covered with herrings in such immense quantities that their number could not be told. At a low computation there could not have been less than from sixty to eighty tons of fish, all full •iked herrings of two kinds, one known as the Maori and the other as the English. In many iftHfo these were heaped up so high, and #mfo closely packed that a score of oarts 'Jrjfijjp,; 4ure been filled in a few minutes.

Boatmen in a short space had filled their boats ; children were heaping them up in hand carts, barrows, and baskets. People were gathering them from the shingle to be thrown on their gardens for manure. The fish were of the finest description and not a careful housekeeper but what has sufficient to furnish fish meals for the next week ; and for those who may trouble to salt and cure them for the next three months. For several days previous the small bays and inlets in the neighbournood of Picton had been swarming wlt'i these fish, and boys- and men with hook ß and lines had been catching them from off the jetty as fust as the baitn could be thrown in and the lines drawn up. It is presumed that the fUh in enormous shoals had been frightened by porpoises which were noticed in great numbers on the previous afternoon near the island, and that to escape one death they had in their terror rushed into another. Yesterday afternoon tens of thousands of those fish were seen floating down the sound with the ebb tide, and it is hoped that an other tide will carry the whole away, as, if they are permitted to lie and putrify, thpy will produce dangerous consequences to the residents in the vicinities where they have gone on shore. — Marlborough Press, June 17.