MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1562, 17 June 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The correspondent of the Melbourne Daily Telegraph in the Soudan says that two privates — an Australian and a Guardsman — were strolling arm in arm through the camp during the march on Tamai. Coming near a sentry they were challenged, and as they stupidly abstained from answering " Friends," the sentry, as in duty bound, fired, and the Guardsman was shot. The wound ended fatally during the morning. According to a contemporary the Christchnrch medicos have subscribed the funds necessary to proceed against the Wellington Press for alleged libel in respect to its article on the Christchurch Hospital management. Damages are to be laid at the modest sum of £5,000. In the Army and Navy Storps Circular there is a charming advertisement. "Two ladies, one of whom has had great success in the artficial hatching and rau'ing of chickens, wish to meet a retired officer to join them either as a boarder or in the management of the poultry. . . . Large tennis and other lawns, good cooking, &o. In "Bleak House " the funeral of Mr Tulkinghorn is described with great humor. The aristocracy send their empty carriages with ' bereaved worms,' ' six feet high, hanging on to them in the shape of footmen. To judge by the accounts of the burial of the late Prince Lan Fu the Chinese outdo us in their pompous mockeries of woe. The procession of His Rayal Highness's remains was preceded by a huge wooden cage, representing his soul. Then followed his sportsmen, leading 240 hounds; then his armchair, the soldiers, and servants by the hundred, and at last the Emperor, represented by six empty carriages ! "Buchu-paiba." — Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases. At Druggists Kempthorne, Prosser k Co., Agents. Christchuroh.'