MISCEIANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1121, 25 August 1882, Page 2

MISCEIANEOUS.

« In an article on the Khedive of Egypt, Truth says : — Tewfik has never been in the money market. If there is one thing in which he is firm it is in the auditing of his household accounts, which he looks into carefully His good nature shows itself in a thousand small ways, but never in profuseness. Cairo is no longer the Eden of the Palais, Royal actress. There was a time — and it is not long past — when any woman with a voice and a fairly pretty face who went there to sing in the Viceroy's theatre came back to Europe laden with gold and jewels, Tewfik neither cares for the opera nor the drama. Hia gifts to friends are generally trifling souvenirs, such as fancy stationers in fasionable quarters of Europe cities deal in Two years ago he contracted with a Viennese tradesman to supply him with a certain number of handsomely bound albums, containing photos of Egyptian antiquities. The few that are mounted in precious metals are for presentation to illustrious visitors to the Valley of the Nile. The rest are for smaller fry. An incident of the Derby Day is described in a letter to the limes. According to "A Mercantile Firm." dating from Fenchurch-street, "a young and inoffensive foreigner" in their office,

a man of honourable and inflential family, was recently mistaken for a " welsher" and brutally treated. This young man has come to England to learn English business and the ways of Englishmen generally, and accordingly, while he was descending the stairs ot the stairs of the stand adjoining the grand stand, he suddenly felt himself attacked by:*a crowd of roughs. He was pulled about, knocked down, kicked till he became insensible, robbed of his watch and money together with a ring and a pin, and and stripped absolutely o*k«<L He has now the appearance of " a prizefighter who had been severely handled."