A War Coresponden.
A liew war correspondent^ of •exceji lenoe has been discovered m the persbd | of Mr Bntleigh, ~ why t during: . ,tbe Egyptian trouble^ sullied Dews io 1 the i Central Newfc£elegrapbic 4geney. The • Pall Mall Gazette says :i— This' gentleman, Mrvißudeigh, r wh6: jis- now t ; discoTet^l" to (beVaauEn'glishman with a long training on the American Press, \ras entertained at a banquet at Willis' Booms, "when many, pleMSnt and welldeserved comphnleritsyyere pad him. Even Sir Qarneti#«lseley overcame his horror of^Bpetsi^l^jsOJrreßpondentß [so far as to praise Mr Burleighj did his worb ipliioHly r and-Bo well i.n^ c Egypt. ] He was always, in fpnt, and, his meßh ■ages Home *w6rfe^ 'clear and full of m- 1 foTmationi 11 - j 'Mt^'Burleigh's career has been full of incident; An ex -Confeder-Afesbldier-and^att^oldtGaribaldiapiineJl hai ; )J much 6f' ; M-ar as an actor as^ freTl'aS* aapeßaSbr] arid thisj" no dodb^ 1 tto^Him iii gbdd stead. ; He ( was first an f the trenches at Tei-el-Kebir, and the first correspocdentto' enter Cairo. So far as telegraiir'iare doncbrnedj Mr Bnrleigh may fairly "claim to have taken m this campaign' the^ position which iwed tp.be held byJtfr-Forbes.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 56, 30 January 1883, Page 3
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187A War Coresponden. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 56, 30 January 1883, Page 3
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