THE WAIKATO CAVALRY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 819, 15 September 1877, Page 3

THE WAIKATO CAVALRY.

Sm,--I see the Waikato Volunteer Cavalry are repeatedly holding meetings, and vehemeutly threaten if (he Govern* ni-nt do not give t' em one pound sterling per day for every day while on- drill, they will disband at onoe. Now, in the,name of all (hat is good and gracious, what do these wild enbhusista mean, or why have they the cheek to oall themselves volunteers. As far as I oan see, they are endeavouring to transform themselves into a money speculating machine. For the last six years the leading spirit of this corps has been forcing its eeVvioe on the Government, in the person of Sir Doqald McLean, and wishing to get sole control of the defenoe of this part of the frouti"r, and now we bear of them passing resolutions at their meetings in; council, that if the Government do not give. (kern this £1 per day for doing 'nothing but amusing themselves, they will retire from military service, and, of course allow the whole Waikato to be swallowed up by the Maories. Well, are not these expressions very patriotic of our. so called Volunteer t'avalry. I say, wives and maidens of Waikato, blush with" 'shame for sucti mercenary Volunteers, for it i» evident they have, not shame themselves to blush. , : ■ I see, by late accounts, that the Government will pay no attention to their threats, and* decline to give them any increase of pay, bo I am afraid Waikato is about to lose the "service of this celebrated band of warriors. Perhups, if the' Emperor of Turkey, in his present; ne-d of troops, was aware that the Volunteer Cavalry in Waikato could b« goCon such reasonable terms, he might accept of their services, aud- dispatch a m »n-of • v/ar to Ngaruuvrabia to carry away these military patriots for the defence of Constantinople. — I am, &c , X Spi^stbb To Awumutu, «sepfc. 10," 1876/ \ [ v Spinster is hard pa the Volunteers. Will none of them take her, and make ii«r a, volutet-ress, and remove .such a lioness out of their path. 'If she could jhave one of them all to herself, Bhe jmJ probably leave the district to the qaiet of the rest. Seriously, ho*--^2^^ a Spinster will have but little sympathy in hi-r tirade against the very just and reasonable request of the Volunteer Cavalry j and should the force, as is not unlikely, disband itself; in consequence of the niggardly conduct of the Government, it is not such as "Spinster" that we shall find coming forward to take the place of better men. —Ed W.T.] ♦ .