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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1266, 9 August 1884, Page 1

Belief of General Gordpii. '/[ Recent accumulations of men, stores and launches at Assouan ;hat ; occasioned 0 surmise that a British. i'nrce is to. be employed from this b:! se to i-el ie ye Khartoum. . The rente would he--., .- . „ v--' ! .-li. i'Toiii-'Oaird'Ho- ABSiout/ SB*^ hiilt-s, hy '„!- ; iiu.' 2. Kiom ssiout to Assouan/ 834 miles. by steamers carrying.men, and tuwing barges also laden with me*;. 1 3; Fi-poi Assouan,, a distance, seven miles, hy a railway con'structedA to avoid the cataract and carry goods bo the -smaller boats of the Upper Nileat Philae.n .7; ? r 7'" w \ pi. From Philaej- to ijrofrofikb^th^ dista'nce'is'lil miles; andis ti*ayers^,d,, by steamers of 40-horse power of • fropa p^fti tQJfft. draught each., "Wiycll:by towing a barge each could frans| port collectively 1000 men, ; 7 .V* . 5. From Korosko to Abu Hamad, , 280' : miles 7- across the desert, witH camels for transport. Camels make . fhe !; journey m ei^Mt or'tfeh: day's.,: There is water half w^y, "but; it is is. bitter, aud though relislied' ,by' X camels is unfits for human beings, X This is a desert utterly barren, '•" consisting ol* succossive ; ranges of rockey hills travering bare plains. • 6\ At the Abu Hamad the Nile,iar again touched, and its course, ther\ce| tb .Khartoum, 441 miles, has butpne" cataract, which can be; passed T^yea,.-; ait low Nile by small steamersj and boats towed by hand from the shore. Thus a. force following, this *coute o; would reach Khartoum after^ 1877:/ miles of travel. Miiitary critics, however, scoff at the idea of such an expedition being undertaken ; and the one practicable .; route is unhesitatingly declared ito| be from Suakim to Berber,.', a dftw" .tance of 250 miles, and so on by the Nile to Khartoum. A military railway; from the por*- to the Berber^: hasel^couhl, it is said be laid, and"'; the desert which is nothing likejso 7 •formidable as tho Korosko wilder* ness, would thus deprived of its terror. , MB. SALA'S TOUR. " ■a* ~— The arrangements for Sala's tour m Australia and New Zealand are now complete. The popular jour* nalist will leave for Melbourne, 'accompanied by Mrs Sala, early nextJanuary. He has signed a twelve months' agreement with Messrs Kignold and Allison, who will' manage the business part of the tour. ! QJhe titles of his lectures run as follows.First, " Tbe Shows of My Time,": viz., the Quecn'scorona'-icin', t he funeral of Nypoleon L, tiie funeral of Alexander 11. at St. Petersburg, and the' coronation of Alexander 111, Second, " The Politics and Letters of My Time," m- which Mr Sala will give delightfully chatty reminiscences of three successive French Revolutions, and the Chartist demonstrations of 1848 ; of Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington. Lord Brougham, Gladstone, Disraeli, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, and a host of other great men/ The third lecture will deal with " Art m England," and fourth with " The Society of My Time." There will also be a by: lecture on •' Cooks and Cookery," which allladies must make a* point 7 of ! attending, for Sala is-a'iibted^ virieur, and knows how to order- a, gojid dinner better than most men^ During his absence Mr Sala will contribute sketches of the colonies to . the Daily Telegraph. ,- A GAY-LOTHARIO* '-.-'-... i :7 : — *» „ .... ..-■,; l ■.M...J .. It would, seem, says a Home parjei^ that-, ...,. though Ireland is torn asunder, by. pcliticfcl ' -. . codwiversies. and 'he rule of •• the Oastle", :is said to be set heavily upon the people, there are yet some irishmen who ue... stilly/ imbued with the old love of adventure* whether m love or m war. As a rule* those who effect connub al bliss act within the limits of the proprieties of life, and are satisfied with one wife, but the other day one Denns Bryant Molloy, a shabbily dresseA man, described us of no occupation;^ ■•' but who was stated to be the son of a gentleman of property, was 'charged at one .of the Dublin police courts with marrying five women! All the marriages wer**r • proved, but the most singular part of tha story is that many of his dupes— perhapa \ out of sympathy for the man or-'frbhv-reticence — refused lo appear against *- himi r '- One of the woman refused to kiss the book when the usual oath was tendered,' and— *■ with the obj ct perhaps, of shielding this. 1 gay' Lothario from the penalities of. th* -, law| which" he had outraged, a* it would ' appear with so' little compunction — went so |far as to say she did not believe the*, prisoner was guilty, that the alleged wives' •werje fictitious, and that a woman cotild be.brought to swear aisything, As," however no end of . marriage certificates were pro** ; 'duced, tho frailty of this, interested - : deponent was at once demonstrated, : to the - no small delight of two of Ids victims, who ' had the courage to disprove the assertion that '* woman can he brought to swear anything." This little episode m the field . of matrimony has caused no little sensation m Dublin on account of the standing, of the' family of the accused. ' ' SINGLE WOMEN. " My views on the marriage tie are briefly/ **ajs Monsignor : Capel, •* that women were made by God Almighty to be either, married or to become nuns, and that there is no such state as old maid recognisable. ' My; advice to all young woman is to accept' marriage proposals- instead of rejecting^ them." This dictumon the marriage- tie*; is well commented upon by Heraid and Globe, of fiutland, Vt-, part of the crUiciam Of which is ks follows :— The truth is, as every obserraut "minf knows that one-half the best philanthropic,work of the world m wronght by singlewomen. Go into auy country town m.- . Vermont, and among the very best, most: upright and most nsetul women for every » good work are woman whom Mgr, OaneS calls " old maids,'' and who. he thini's, Uave no mission outside of marriage save '•' ; nunnery. Some distinguished American statesmen once said that the Presidency !of the United States was aueifice neither to be meanly secured by intrigue nor declined when honourably offered for acceptance. It is something so with marriage ; if it comes m worthy and acceptab* form, it is well j but if it does not come m that shape,it is sometliing to be reieutvd,— American Paper,