The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 268, 23 December 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

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SATURDAY, I) X (,' E M 1$ IC R 23, 1848

In another page will be found a letter on that very soie, and almost exhausted, bubject, the unjusl and unequal distribution of icwaids to the [View Zealand campaigners. Sympathizing, as we have ever done, in the disappointment winch must have been ielt by those whose gallant devotion merited a very , dittcient, acknowledgment than that which it has pleased the powers that be to bestow, we could not find it in our heaits to suppress a communication (rather out of season) merely because its interest is not quite so fresh or so exciting as it was some eighteen months since. Our correspondent has done justice to a. few of our gallant defenders, but his list is still a very incomplete one, and we conceive that "good service" in the Soutli was quite as much entitled to honorable distinction as "good sirvice" in the Noilh of New Zealand. Unluclaly, none of the conflicts, either South or North, found so desperate 'cute a chronicler as the Despatch writer of lluapekapeka. If they had, amid an impartial distrition of decoration and promotion, we conceive that Captain Edward Stanley, of the Cau.ioi'k, and Major Edward Last, of the 09th Regt., would not have gone without their ribbands — Lieutenant Edward Holmes without, his step, nor many other brave men without their hard won meed. We fear the matter is not likely to be reconsidered, but that the award of the Horse Guards, like Lord John Russell's measure of Reform, carries " finality" in its face. Had New Zealand, as the Hum Fums of China, produced its chests of Syccc, a medal might have been screwed from out the captivated tin ; but for a kit of rhvi, or a basket of leumerus, what better than a beastly bivouack, with abundance of hard knocks, could be expected or extorted ? Alas, for martial glory ! when its outward honors are conferred when terrifying a horde of wealthy pigtails, but withheld when successfully resisting a race of poor but undaunted warriors !

Crickkiv— The match between the Bachelors and the Benedicts commenced on Wednesday last. Many of the latter were absent without leave, and some single young gentle^ men were, therefore, called upon to fill their places. The first innings terminated about six o'clock — the bachelors having scored 112, their antagonists 77. The crack players of the benedicts were howled, caught, and stumped out with fatal celerity ; and the fortunes of their side would have been shrunk to a very petty measure indeed, but for the "prodigious" play of Mr. Philip Turner, who took

five-and-lwenty runs off his own bat, to the great delight of his confederates, avlio gieeted his exertions with loud and exultant cheers. So powerfully and so well did Mr. Turner wield his weapon, that, although he did not Lury the hall deeper than plummet sounded, he still sent it so far that it upset three players* and required a ladder to dtaio it from a spot truth is said to inhabit. A good many spectators, both ladies and gentlemen, were present, and much interest was manifested. We hear the second innings will be played on Wednesday next.

We perceive, by our advertizing columns, that a Lecture in advocacy of Total Abstinence will be delivered by the Rev. Frederick Miller, Vice President of the Total Abstinence Society of Van Diemen's Land— in the Wesleyan School Room, on Tuesday Evening, the 26th instant, at 7 o'clock. We believe that a Temperance Tea party will be held in the course of the ensuing week prior to the departure of our reverend visiter.