THE LATE CORRESPONDENT OF THE STANDARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 72, 26 February 1885, Page 2

THE LATE CORRESPONDENT OF THE STAND ARD.

Writing recently to the Sydney Morn* ing Herald on the snbject of ** The London Press," Mr Archibald Forbes said of the late Mr Cameron, i>he "war' correspondent of the London Standard :■=—" It was a lucky thing for the Standard' that Mr A. Cameron, not succeeding, as a coffee planter m the Neilgherries, came down to Bombay, was recruited^to its banner there through the instrumentality of its veteran 'correspondent,' Ts&v G.; A. Henty, and sent up to represent m Afghanistan. He recorded for it/.in/admirable style, Roberts' famous march from ' Cabul to Candahar, and when there was no more work m Afghanistan he • came down to South Africa, and was with Colley on Majuba Hill. He saw^that sad business out, and then, bruised)- Battered, and worn as he was, he tramped back ten miles to the camp, and telegraphed Home the sombre story. ; His narrative was read m England the morning after the unhappy day ; and it was a tale unsurpassed m modesty.'vividness, good taste, and manly directness. 'The message cost the Standard £1200, and it was money well spent. Cameron's was the only coherent account. ot the bombardment of Alexandria, and bis long desert ride to telegraph his brilliant description of Kassassin was a feat of which any man might be proud. When the Madagascar trouble began, the .Standard was the only paper^ repVefcenfed, and Cameron was the representative. The other day, taking Australia en route, he was at Tonquin ; and now, when and where he was wanted, he turns up at Suakiin, and immediately his work begins to tell. It is a grand rare faculty that of being always m the rigKt spot at the right time ; and it is a faculty with which alone, seemingly^ of all t the young nien now on the jonrnalistic war-path, Cameron seems endowed. His predecessor, as the Standard's war-correspon-dent-in-chief, is now m honorably earned retreat — grand Mr G. Henty, whose cousins were the pioneers of Victoria."