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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 60, 12 February 1885, Page 3

The follo\ving,itein from a recent issue of a Liberal organ (the Pall Mall Gazette) will be read with interest at the present juncture : — What a spectacle of audacity and- resource is that which General Gordon presents at Khartoum ! Tho telegrams represent him as having destroyed tho indefensible part of Khartoum and enclosed the rest of the city by fortifications, behind which, from a high tower, he keeps watch and guard over the defences. Ho is said to be making powder, and he has repaired all' his stoamers, so that he has now sixteen under his command, but it is not stated whether or not these include the two new vessels he began to build some time ago. Lord Cairns has sneered at the folly of sending one man with a walking stick .to keep the Mahdi m check. But that one man with a walking-stick has kept the Mahdi, in check, and if his advice had only been listened to there would never have been any need of sending an army into the Soudan. The mischief was done, not m sendmg the man with the walking-stick, but m not listening to his advice when he was sent.