THE IMPERIAL TROOPS.

Evening Post, Issue 266, 14 December 1865, Page 2

THE IMPERIAL TROOPS.

Major-General Chute is evidently a man of energy, and apparently as cautious as energetic In our last monthly summary we announced his arrival in Auckland j noticed his movement thence to Wellington to con- j suit the Governor and his Ministry ; thence to Wanganui, to Patea, to Taranaki, and back to Auckland. Since then he has made the same tour, but extending his travels to districts and outposts which he had not previously inspected. He has again returned to Auckland, and, it is generally believed, is preparing for a short but sharp campaign in Taranaki from New Plymouth to the Fatea. If General Chute adopts his mode of warfare to the country, tactics, and oircumstances of the enemy, that hot bed of rebellion and den ' of murderers will be cleared out ; hut 10 sure as he moves with a regular army, he will only cross the country to be laughed at. Let him ; call for five or six hundred volunteers from j the Imperial troops, with a proportionate ' number of commissioned and non-commis-sioned officers ; equip them as, and unite them with, the Bushrangers, and then with a Native Contingent and a few artillery, he may shew the Hau Haus what British soldiers can do when fairly pitted against an enemy. The troops are widely scattered throughout these districts. Most of the 68th L.I. that had been stationed here left on the Bth instant in the Ahuriri for Taranaki under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Morant. The detachment consisted of 165 rank and file, with Captain Seymour, Capteln Casement, and Lieutenants Stewart, Carlton, and Bolden Those of the same regiment remaining at Tarihitenui are to follow. Since the above was in type, General Chute has once more returned by the Stormbird.— Wanganui Times