The Melbourne correspondent of theNexu Zealand Times writes : — "I informed you in a previous letter that Colonel Anderson, who is in command of our voluuteere, made the extraordiuary statement, before the Royal Commission, that four thousand of our volunteers could not successfully resist a regular force of two thousand once lnnded on our shores. Ho soon experienced a storm of indignation from officers and privates in the volunteer force, and on his next appearauce before the Royal Commission he coinplnined thut he bad been misreported, nn el that ju U\q opiniop a tlioasund
Englisbmeft', armed with only slicks, could beat thretf thousand' Frenchmen*. This brought the French Consul or> the ecede, and a Captain Boioir,. who* fought Jri the Crimea under the French flag. Tne caplain left his nnme and 1 address, and staler] that it was at tlie> disposal of the colonel whenever hedesired, either with stick or otherwise.. Colonel Auderson then apologised for/ his hnsly and ill-judged remark, andr the matter was quietly laughed out./
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 131, 2 June 1875, Page 2
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