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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 138, 11 June 1874, Page 2

At tbe banquet given by the City of London to tbe chiefs of the Ashantee Expedition, Sir Garnet Wolseley, iv replying to the toast of his health, is reported to have said : " The military world of late years has been employed in discussing many plans for campaigns on a large scale, and that without reference to England ; but it is a great blessing to us that these little wars, such as those of Abyssinia and Ashantee, teach us a lesson — that wben we have selected a general to take command of an expedition, it is necessary to trust him, to give him what he asks, to rely on him, and, above all things, not to trammel him. That was the mistake of the New Zealand war, and I trust no general will ever again be sent who is not entrusted with the charge of the whole of tbe affairs connected with the country into which he is to advance. If I had had a civil governor at my elbow or an ambassador to control me in such things, I firmly believe I should never have reached Coomassie,"