VOLUNTEERING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 54, 5 March 1870, Page 2

VOLUNTEERING.

To THB EDITOR OP THE NELSON EVENING MAIL. Sir — I see you have lately been writing against the volunteers, and if the parade which came off yesterday is a specimen of what is generally the case, I am sure I do not wonder at it. Don't you think that if a more respectable turn-out cannot be managed, it would be far better if the Government was to knock the volunteers on the head altogether, I am, &c, Pop Gun. Nelson, 4th March. [Our correspondent is in error in statiug that we have been " writing against" the volunteers, it is the system we attack, not the men. We are most anxious to see a radical chauge effected in the rules and regulations by which the volunteers are at present guided, but we are hardly prepared to advocate the adoption of so extreme a measure as that suggested by the murderously inclined " Pop Gun." — Ed. N. E. Jf.] To the Editor op the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir, — Although quite agreeing with your remarks respecting the laxity of our volunteer movement in Nelson, I might state that on Saturday last I was present, at au inspection of the Wellington Artillery, when the number present was under tweuty, so that little Nelson is not behind our Empire City, where they are supposed to muster well. One remark I would like to make respecting their band — they muster well, and play well, and seem to work in unison, and they number, as nearly as I could count, as many men as were in the rauks. Yours, &c, Ex Volunteer.