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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 70, 24 February 1885, Page 3

" Taxpayer " ; writes imploring the Auckland Herald to discourage /the idea '■'■'of ofiferMjg-ttie Services pf a New ZfealaM : • coi^jH 'to* assist in 1 the war 'm Egj qL * He ..points.; out 'our enormous debt, ; tbat-' '^e are the heavjes.t taxed people en thetabe of the earth, and.^ays that an expedition Hp tie,; ' Souaaii, would .'-JBbsjt... goodness !kndw8 v ht>Mr"'imibh { m6re,' and nobody ncould^y where StfwOuld^ridv ;'; : „,.-..■;.,. ■... .-l^jj ■Uz~-\ i •;..■•■■- WV.y iV s i j '../;Whiie'»Np^ Sduth Wides h^^u^aj noble chord m Bending its Soudan contingent to aid our Queen anc^ country, jits .may not-'.iJe "'^M (pays #£ ;) Au&k4aiy paper) to 1 (remind this 1 genfefcajaonV 6£;tiy •.-AJucklandi ■ptib|icvtiia'fe ilfc£^s%Sd .. th©^eople.;d^AuWoW(l : >liaa''» I '^rfeitad ,'Grih^e^ Wjfa att^^t^cjeh> ; tb^/i)4i^ir| Heidr m t^e;Qda^Uo.\ysVHall;. and jother' •Sttlisßriptidiif f ; tnfr ttien ! "city of Auckland," •raised; about JE4OOO. ' : A. Tefere^je'^i'Me!; files of the journals of the pono# o ßho)vj thjis, ; and' 30 years has not . .•";■ -M^tin^a^' Ijjej Sj^aj^ijaidi ■iSft'-SaiMtM/ißia^fer, ;^;j^flnij£ a^wfyj I the granary of thl», world;; jo abandon-" Khartoum is to suiWn^lev Vimi >ill ; j: \)&: the riches^. entrepW'in tlie worlq.!.. If the Soudan were m English hanils, m a few years you would be entireljy independent! of iheUnited'Stutes both for cotton and corn. Yon have no idea, whaf. a country »dii fertile bey oud^h^lief, an inexliau^ ihler watersupply, and the whole traversed from end ,to end by two great , jhigh w^vs. "Many a time; have I ridden through deser'ted' 'iisfcVicts m "the. cori . "nr J dhiirra was grßwiiig"' high' enough to cover an elephant, and. tjiat witbj ;«iiUt : aVrimg(tt.heisliguti3Si'iculti\»ation. . > To top this immense * reservoi^ofun? . developed wealth, alLthat is neefchsary is a. Khprt, r ?u) W&Y irpna Suakira to „tjis ! Ti^ile and a decent government. „Bnt to atandon ,it ';wp'uj<l 'bo..tp..,o|jeii ' the" Vast ' region to ,be .scrambled. for by the fiUbust'era and pirates of $f»s \vdm:' j 'i "■'■': ."'■'■ V :i ' '•"'"• ! '■'■■ Wliofr General' WdlseTey 1 |'weiit rty 'EgVpt'tn pntUowif tlie rebefliqn fiindei-i'Anibi^(wi-ifces ••' Wa.^deeb&' ! ih the bHawera Biao)i^it> was saitl that : he wad©; .certain* predictions' us to- hi^ _, njQv^wients < with \ .the • British, ' ' : ai*niyl /WJ^rjithe^aiS was, bver.itlwas siirj .. accpfiJin^tq general accountsr %ov? true : his Dropheciteis turned «■> if to I f be. . Pripi': to his. dopavttive— rl think ! .'it.' wu jn ,^ptemb,er7rrhß . .is , sai(i ; to have agafn pi'edicted, the, most, ,re-? markable being, that he would have his Xmas dinner' with (xouloij m Khartouni. Alas ! alas ! his ahtipipa-- ' tionis were, doomed to disappointment — at 'Xina.*. h^'was far away from Gbrdon, 1 and now his friend is nti more and Khartoum 'has still to be reached. '

The- following particulars of two gajlanfc officers who ha-ve*l>eeh placed liors de combat m the Soudan appear m Uie Araay Lwt :r^-Colonel *. R. 0. Coveny (killed), . Ist battalion Black Wa.tch (4:2,11(1^90% ; we^ved m the; Ashanti Wacsit the bat^le^'of; AniOaful, Ordashu, :ind captuie of'Cooniassie. Has the medtil, with; clasps. Served' m ibe Egyptian Expedition of 1882. 'Was at the'-hattle of Tel-el-Kebjr, at which he was wounded.Was mentioned m despatches. Colouel A. G; Wanchopc, 0.M.G., (severely wounded), Ist battalion Black Watch. (42nd foot). He was made bievet-Heutenant-colonel on 21st May, 1884.; Served m the Ashairti campaign of' 1873-74. . WaH at the <sapture au'd destruction of Adubiassie, capture of Borlwrassie, battle of Amouf ul, capture and destruction of Becquah, cap- • turc of Jabitibah, where' hei ■ wa's : wounded. Was present at the skiimiiih.es between Ad wabin:i and theRilor brdah, at> the battlo of iQi dahsu, where ho was vevy severely wounded. Was mentioned m .despatches of Gazeites7th and 17th of March, 1874. ;