THE ARMED CONSTABULARY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 639, 24 June 1876, Page 2

THE ARMED CONSTABULARY.

Sib, — A few days npo I read a paragraph in jour paper referring to the probability of a considerablo reduction hping made in the A.C. Force now stationed in tho Waikato ; to what extent, or upon what grounds that . reduction may be considered necessary it ii really difficult at present -fco decide, inasmuch as the so-called Native Difficulty cannot be said to have assumed so satisfactory a character no to warrant such a •tcp being taken by the Government,— a step which, if carried into effect, may be fraught with the worst possible consequences to tho peace and safety of the settlers on the frontier. It is all very well for outsiders and malcontents generally to declaim against maintaining what they are pleasod to term n national army ; tut Taming the question in * purely disinterested, light, it is manifestly ccr'-ain that any act of tli a ■Government da 'disbanding "or 4oniid«r&bly

1 W in Lk close i>«mmit> to a bavaga r.ue? S',;W of having so « W H.«.t and ncU 1 iol.Sa afcodj of non «vt tbe eovc.al stntion* 2 a he Vg pro.-liTi.iea. and yerh<, P3 P 3 oilier "do tt.im,t auaa g{! re«.re a*. M«.m- m q J.^'riU- bub nil t'.Bt L» been «rd ,a,IoVVr u tf.^ndl,a«s of the «, -cjlM X,.i P , slu.uld l»e »im,.ly inUoa for »bat f it is trrli. until further proof bo giren of tbo r,"c. ?!T of .«oh pro;«io«-. 'ILc/xpenenco of "l.ti s .lSuld r.ot bo lost .i*lit Of by vi. fo e"> nothing cf our b..k-lul reroMeetion of the Pore tv i» 7 mawecro ; and no other illustration need be «fen than that of the Ind.an Umpire, iluro it "a chiefly owing to the presence and rr u ~oy of tbe BritijT ardhi, that the present SS^uStons of tbe powerful >*™^ have been maintained.— l am, &c , VOX FOPOLI.