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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 184, 4 July 1874, Page 2

The following sensible remarks were made Dy Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley at a banquet given by the Lord Mayor of London to the heroes of the Ashantee war. There is little doubt that if the New Zealand war had not been sadly mismanaged in the manner of which he complains, that bugbear called a “ native difficulty ” would not now have an existence : —“ The military world has learnt many valuable lessons in recent years, but the most valuable to us as a nation that has been taught us by the Abyssinian and Ashantee wars is that when you have to appoint an English general to command auy undertaking it is necessary to trust him; to supply him with all he asks for; and above all things, to avoid the error committed during the New r Zealand war of severing the military command from the diplomacy necessarily connected with the operations. I have no hesitation in saying that had my operations been encumbered by the presence with me of a civil governor, or of an ambassador authorised to give me orders, I do not think I should ever have reached Cooinassie.”

Thebe s tnis sweet consolation for those who intend Their old fad of cremation on others to force : If rejected just now, it will come in the end, Either sooner or later, as matter of course 1 —Hornet.