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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 518, 14 October 1890, Page 3

A curious story comes from Amiens. A corpse supposed to be that of a man named Beaufils, was found in the somme and buried amid the tears of his family. To the astonishment of his relations, Beaufils quietly wajked into his own house |he other quite unaware of the fact that' he had been drowned and buried. He had been spending three weeks in Paris, and when the matter was explained to him, the shock made him quite ill. The identity of the corpse that was buried under his name has yet to be established, The following story is going the rounds I —The 65th Regiment was twenty years cut of sight, till at lost the London Punch discovered it to be in New Zealand. That island (says a writer in the Sydney Morning Herald at the time—from 25 to 50 years ago) was the very pick of stations in the British Empire for officers without means, and men who could turn their hands to some use when their discharges were purchased or tneir terms of service expired. The corps finding itself in such clover, asked nothing better than to be let alone ■ a wish which the easy-going authorities of the Horse Guards discovered, and good-natun dly complied with. The result was that officers, officers and men became a sort of pommpne or mir. The full privates Were let away for months at a Stretch to plough and delve and blast, a small per centage of the earnings—so at least it was whispered—finding its way upward, being promoted, in fact. These knowing ladj made themselves popular with the native's, too, so that in the Sixties, when trouble commenced in Taranaki, the Maoris would bawl out, "Lie down, iokedyfifth; we’po goin’ to shoot,” No WPBd«r the new troqp.s that came in the wake of General' Gameron called the 65th the Civil Maoris, 1 ’ and no wonder that many a stiff stand-up fight ? in the buff behlfid the conlwn was the rcsulti