GOOREHAS AS AUXILIARIES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 196, 21 August 1869, Page 2

GOOREHAS AS AUXILIARIES.

To the. Editor op the Nelson.Etening Mail. Sir/— I hope nothing I lately wrote regarding the 'employment of Goor--k'has was construed into any wish to see the Colonial forces replaced by Asiatics. Qur troops in the North have, I think, done wonders; and experienced as they and their officers now are in bush Warfare, it would,;-! think, be very injudicious . to replace them by any other troops. It wasonly as a cheap«auxiliary force ladvocated the employment ;ofGoorkhas.; ,Ti*opps of the line, from want 6f proper trainirigj are r quite'.unfittgd- for the .wprk. ;; ; r ; '";-.:.; 1 ■ '■■'& s'So' long as .we » have friends^.?;) 'amongst the'Maoris, . this -war wilL neveribje :lho- ;^ roughly :j pu t dpwfll;^; Were .there nope btit* enemies -there m'igKt^e'''sbm'erch : ande, by. a« : getferalj; European. riseV of > bringing, tiiei; v difi^lt£ .:to ';4t.is;;'w,ith^oti;r i^smalirmeaDsyi^l^e/^^an^o-'

is to give the enemy no rest, and to destroy all his crops.; -Let him understand that so long as he continues opposed to us, so long will his belly suffer, if his head does not. This policy will hay t e,a.;.;better,-effect4han all the bullets in the 'country, but it must be carried out to the extreme. • . ' ■ Yours, &c, \.. :..', „.:;.;:.-;.; F. J. Wrotohton, Coh Bengal -Army-.