THE MOHAKA STOCKADE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 258, 28 April 1865, Page 2

THE MOHAKA STOCKADE.

• To the Editor of the Hawlce'a Bay'Times;-. Sitßr—A!lpw-iae-t& ■ eall your-a? tentioiv-to-what. I consider to be waste of labor and money which is now being elected* by Jhc building of a worse than.useless breastworh.i’pund the stockade of this'place., l am' unaware of wbp IhW engineer may be 'wnd has prepared 1 'file pfah’s for this work,, but it is being executed undeytlm superintendence" of Mr »T. JE?ea?cfi of the work will be to; con vert ibis stronghold n into a mantrap, as a .men without cpuld, by.maki g, use of the shelter afforded by these work s, besiege the stbcltade starve'out Its defehdtrv I must explain that the stockade is of a hesangular shape, and the new breastwork is maue'to follow the 6utUhe;ofthe stobkatle without aiiy projecting angles for the defence, oftheilineb of the-sides. soj that it will actually shelter a large number, winy could so place themselves 1 under the V-alls a.—to render it quite, impossible/ for. thune , wit hip to dislodge them, or to bring a musket to bear on one of them without'exposing’ his perkfn to the certainty of being shot himself.' ■■ If there were to he three projecting angles , placed alternately so that each of them would .command two. of the, ■aides, this’bvil would ’’Be removed,'and it would" bpoome impossible for invaders ty, re,tain,or toj gain posseksfdii of the ground referred' to ; :bUt: oii the > praU it offers' them a position* securefroifa’attaeici" h. \’ *;« - ;UUI 1 Tours, Ac., A MOHAWK. Vnhritylted ApstL r “ ' ‘