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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 883, 3 December 1870, Page 2

The German Post relates that after the glaughter at Vionville, on the 18th of August, a estrange and touching spectacle was presented. On the evening call being sounded by #}e Ist regiment of dragoons of the Guard, 6Q2 riderless hordes answered to the sum.mpns, jaded, and \n many cases, maimed. The noble 'animals, sjtijl retained theip disciplined habits. Inteljigenpe. was received o,f the death of a in one of the late battles who had peen in a merchant's office }n Liverpool, and wj*q left his employment to fight for Fatherland. Jt seems thac ho was engaged to be married to a young lady in that town posess|ng grpat personal attractions. The melansioly news was conveyed to her some days ago, but during the interval she has never pnee spoken, and is said to be in state of semijns§nsibil|ty.rTTE nglish paper. £. mqn named Peter Brown, a fisherman at Wanjjanuj, was fined 5s and costs a few says MA tot ©ending r\is not on a Sunday.

Literary men are at the seat of war in a new character, not that of special correspondents, but as nurses to the wounded and sick. We learn from the newspapers that Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, M.P., proprietor of the Athenapum, Mr Auberon Herbert, M.P., and Mr VVintecbotham, M.P., have joined the Junitas, and have been seen at Nancy with bandages, on the;r arms, prei-aring for their work as brothers of charity. They travel with a train of hospital supplies under Cou::t Golz, and with them are eleven Sisters of Charity. They are stated to have had some amusing adventures, to have been arrested by both sides, to have had odd lodgings and adventures, and to hare passed in'the Crown Pjrince's track oyer £he,recenj; battle fields.