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For New Plymouth. THE steamship CORK) will leave for the above port on or about the 80th instant. For fi eight or passage, apply to J. BEIT, 523 . Haven-road. NOTICE. OVERLAND MAIL, the Contractor for the same will leave the Royal Hotel, Nelson, Every Monday Morning, at Signt o'clock. 516 PAUL SPANGER. XJEX.SON EXHIBITION. THE EXHIBITION will continue Open THIS DAY, Tuesday, April 23, and following da Day Tickets, Is. Season ditto, 2s. 6d. Ditto ?a--lmOpenUfrommOpenUfrom 'Twelve till Five, and from Seven till Nine each day. JNO. PERCY, 498 Hon. Secretary. POSTS ANDRAILS FOR SALE.—To be sold CHEAP FOR CASH, have been set up a short time. Parties purchasing would have to take : them up and fill in the holes. Apply to W. N., Colonist orhce. F~6b7sALE, that most convenient fourroomed COTTAGE residence opposite the Raglan Brewery. The situation most retired, although with ready access to the town. The house is well and neatly finished. . For full particulars, apply to *c proprietor E. 15. J. JiAJ.'Wj.Ei, 524, Collingwood-street. NOTICE. . "POISON is now LAID upon my Land m JL this district for the destruction of all DOGS. T. C. BATCHELOR. Suburban North, April 19. 51f By Order of the Mortgagees. MESSRS. N. EDWARDS AND CO. JjJL ] lave received instructions from the Mortgagee, to sell by auction, at the Warehouse, Trafalgar-street, on THURSDAY, the 9th May, at Two o'clock pre°lSe yAll that valuable piece or parcel of LAND, situate in the district of Suburban North, Nelson, now or lately in the occupation of Mr. Robert Pollock, containing Forty Acres, more or less, beino- part of the Accommodation Section No. 4 on the plan of the said district; together with the House, Messuage, or Tenement thereon ; and all buildings now standing on the said piece or parcel of land. For full particulars apply to the Auctioneers. Terms at sale. Nelson, April 19, 1861. 519 Sale of Valuable Property, by Order of the Mortgagees. ]\/f ESSRS. N. EDWARDS AND CO. -L*-B- have been instructed by the Mortgagees to sell by auction, at their Warehouse, Trafalgar-street, on THURSDAY, May 9, at Two o'clock precisely— 1. All that very valuable piece or parcel of LAND, situate in the Town of Nelson, containing one rood, more or less, being Section No. 1124 on the plan of the said town, having a frontage to Bridge-street of 290 feet or thereabouts, contiguous to the Salt-water, bridge, by an average depth of 60 feet. 2. All those allotments or parcels of LAND, situate in the district of Suburban North, Nelson, containing together 57i acres, more or less, being Sections Nos. XL, XX., 72, and 73, on the plan of the said District, together with all and every the messuage or tenement, building and premises now standing upon the said allotments or parcels of land, or some part thereof. For further particulars apply to the Auctioneers. Terms at sale. Nelson, April 19, 1861. ' 520 [circular.] rFO Messrs. C. P. Kearns, J. H. Taylor, -*- Vj. Humphries, G. Lane, H. Hubbard, J. P. , Hoit'e, J. Wakefikld, and others of the No. G COMPANY RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Gentlemen, —When I had the honor to enrol myself with you at the formation of the above Company, it was under a sense of duty to my country in the true volunteer spirit, indeed to take part with you in an organization under her Majesty; and to defend our homes and her laws was to me a very agreeable task. Up to the 24th of August last (the day of the funeral of the late Mr. Kite) I had never unlawfully absented myself from drill, and to this day, although unable to attend the parade myself, I encourage others in my family and service to do so in my time and at my expense. But, Gentlemen, I have a grievance to lay before you. On the 17th August a law was proclaimed that "leave of absence in future would not nor could not be granted, except in case of sickness.' 1 On the next drill da}', 1, having more respect for the dead than I had or ever can have for the law of the seventh, absented myself for the first time (of course) without leave. The two drill days following, viz., 3let, and September 7th, I was unwell and unable to attend ; for the 14th I had no valid excuse to make; but the remainder of the month and that of October, my wife was very dangerously ill, requiring and having my constant attendance. Being placed in tliis position, and by the above l«w to a comulsory drill, I was bound to neglect the one or the other—l chose the latter. For this 1 was vi.-ited with two fines in August, four in September, and three in October, amounting to £3 12s. Thisl regarded as being unreasonable and unjust, and 1 refused to pay it; but as nothing else would satisfy the Captoin, I was summoned before the Magistrate's Court, Nelson (a Court which had no power to deal in the case), and was ordered to pay the amount, but recommended to see the chief officer on the subject. After paying expenses I left the Court and thought for shame no man would ever hold up his hind for anything more. In this I was mistaken, for 1 have Miice had another visit from the Captain in search of the cash—upon which occasion I gave him to understand that unless it washy the wish of the Company, I never could consent to pay it; and that if he chosj to tike it, before he had submitted the case to them, it alljwed me an opportunity to do so, that I should only regard it as an injustice. This could not be heard, so 1 was forthwith distressed, and being ftom home at the time 1 was advised to have the money paid (under protest), which I did, as being the price of liberty. Hut the worst has yet to be told. In the Colonist of December 7th will be found a report of the case as it came before the Court, note the evidence ! In answer to a question put by myself, the Captain said that he " refused to grant" mo " leave of absence on the 3rd of August." Now had this been true (placed as he knew 1 was, on the very busiest day of wheatsowing and the weather so catching as it was,) it would only tend to shew the injustice more clearly; but he did grant me leave, and that too before witnesses. Again: it was affirmed that 1 " was not at drill on the 17th." Had he not been there himself and drilled me on that day 1 might have thought that he had been misinformed, but such was the case, it was also stated that " there was no drill on the day of the funernl of the late Mr. Kite." He might not huve been there himself, but those who were there could not be so mistaken. And before he left the witnessbox he said that he "did not believe" in my wife's illness ; but, those who attended her sick bed night and day for five weeks know better. Gentlemen, I have here stated the simple facts of the case, and can only add that it would give me great pleasure to have an opportunity to meet you in the presence of Captain Sparrow and his superior officer to substantiate the same, 1 am, Gentlemen, Your Obedient Servant, THOMAS BUTLER. Richmond, 18th April, 1861. 521 1 QA BALES Hydraulic-pressed Oaten ■*-O\J and Lucerne HAY FOR SALE, ex CORIO. Apply to the Wharfinger, at the Albion Wharf, or to 607 JOHN BEIT.