VOLUNTEERS FOR HAWKE’S BAY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 257, 26 April 1865, Page 3

VOLUNTEERS FOR HAWKE’S BAY.

(From the N. Z. Herald)

A splendid opportunity for the fine young men to enlist, to serve those punctual paymasters, and honorable men of their word, the Weld Ministry, is now, we hear, open to the public of this province. r

The authorities at Napier have, we understand, made application to the authorities here to assist them in raising in Auckland a body of 100 volunteers to servo iu the province of Hawke’s Bay. This will indeed be a popular service. Tim people of'Auckland remember with gushing feelings of grateful affection the kind, self sacrificing way in which the present Ministry have met their engagements to the Waikato militia—how they placed those men at the earliest possible moment on their sections, giving them the use of tools, cattle, seed, provisions, &c., and though the treasury was said to b« low, assuring them that they, the Ministry, would act up to the engagements of the Colonial Government, though °they sold the table of the Executive Council, and the very chairs, to do so. Nor have the Auckland people forgotten (he fact that, like true English gentlemen, the present Ministry have determined to keep faith with the Government immigrants and fulfil their part of the contract to the letter. Under these circumstances we can readily imagine that to-day the aunouucemeet of so many volunteers being required, will cause a rush to the enlistment room, by aspiring young men anxious to be rewarded with the promise of regular pay, rations, and cultivated farms, and anything else lie may require. Perhaps the Napier authorities would like our Superindent and his Executive to heat up the town as recruitin'* sergeants, followed from house to house by the Johnny Haws with a yard and a ha’f of ribbon in their hats. Whan we refiect how much cause for respect and confidence the late dealings of the colonial Government must have called forth from the Superintendent of Auckland and his Executive, we do not think that the performance of this duty by the latter would be more than could be reasonably expected of them. The Colonial Ministry have chosen a happy moment to ask Auckland men to repose confidence in their “ promises to pay,” their credit for honesty and exactness in the performance of their engagements being so thoroughly understood and appreciated at the present moment by all men in this Province, more especially by the men of the Waikato Militia, and the newly-arrived immigrants for the Waikato. We have not been informed whether the proposal, which must have been written about the first of April, is intended by the Ministry seriously or for a joke—if as the latter it is not a bad one, though rather a hard hit at themselves. Should, howeyer, the proposal of the Colonial Government to raise a company of men in Auckland to serve under them in Hawke’s Bay be meant seriously and no doubt it is, we in all seriousness, can only say that their presumption is almost as barefaced as their dishonesty, and that they have shown that they possess as much of the fool as we were well aware they did of the rogue iu their political composition. If it is the Provincial authorities whom they would attempt to lead into assisting them in duping Auckland men, they have made a very great mistake, for after recent events the Superintendent of Auckland and his Executive are not the men to be duped by these unscrupulous tricksters. Since the above was in type, the following hand-bill has been circulated through the town at a late hour“ V.R. Wanted, 100 men for Napier, as Military Settlers, immediately. For terms—see daily papers. For further particulars apply to Mr Scully, Napier Government Agent, at the Governor Browne Hotel, Hobson-ztreet, from 10 to 4 o’clock.”