ARRIVAL OF THE LAST OF THE VICTORIAN MILITARY SETTLERS.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 110, 4 November 1863, Page 6 (Supplement)

ARRIVAL OF THE LAST OF THE VICTORIAN MILITARY SETTLERS.

(From the Daily Sottfliei'ti Cross, Oct. 6th.) The last of the Victorian Volunteer Military Settlers arrived yesterday in the. Golden age, accompanied fey CoJ. Eitt/ j?he ship Star of India brought us 4 officers and 406 men ; the Caduceus 3 officers and 386 men ; and the Golden Age 4 officers arid 148 men; so that the total strengh of the force we have received from Victoria is li officers and 940 men. Oat of this number the per centage of drilled men is 35, of married men 9 ; the average, age \% twenty-seven years 'j and the average height 5 feet t\ inches. The total nu mber of volunteers who offered themselves was 1429, of which 380 were rejected either by the docter or Col, Pitt. The volunteers who arrived yesterday; and whose namea we publish, .are' under the command of Captain Skene, and Lieats. Walker Frazerj anqV .Pitt.. Lieuts. Rickards and and Percival had proceeded to Tasmania to enlut men there^aiid'itfe'probable: thai j by this tiirie they are on their; iway, here. r,With those which have arrived from Sydneyand Otagp, we have now receiiyed in round numbers .about 7, 500 .niili-v "iary ' s^tyersiWh^ther the^e ; vrill |be jadequate the' wantsjof ' the vproyjlnce. It- is not for us to sa^r, but stfch a^rejiiifdrcement -in slibrt' a- period j . isi:qertainly;^altiable one ; and it reflects great credit on Colonel£itt and th e other officers with him j tbativithlhV^inic^ftie^thjelyTiav^Bhad to iopp-" tend against, theyj^^peiiprmed the taik" 'sfesigned4o them^rt^p^odptljr and jeff&> itftallyHi OXxwreSllß^^gentlemen; liay« f ;acl^ : nnder instfuißfio^^ vm«n^^Ho~^ald^^pj^blyljhlaye not w<ere g^ou^ds^oir so iijOTn^;cbut|^nitaryT s«Bttleinienti tojnjihe' exifeititi^^ihroducing only ; 1500; pr^ 2006 men dpes ; not appear^ io^bejsarryingjpntthe .principle ;BpfulJ^ as; the exigencies .p^tKe xw-'wbuldV'scfeihV.-.to' awnandv^ the prospec^of the arrival of^three Earppean regiments, ;we . have nothing ' to Te^ar and much : to . be tharikfulfor.