The Soudan.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1564, 24 November 1885, Page 2

The Soudan.

Under date the 25th September, the Age-s\ London correspondent writes .that it Will be learnt .with regret that Mr Curtis, the semi-Australian, who, many mouths . ago, uudertpok the task of con^- . veyfng to General 'Gordon iie'wa 'bf^thV' outside world, and of bringing back, fromi ; Khartoum his comments thereon, has i fallen a victim to the; enmity t^of the .Bedouins while on his way, fi;6m^l)bnf "gohi, to Wady ' Haifa. ''""Mr Curtis/ th.oi*ouglily failed m his raisßioh; though, his assumption of Arab' dress and speech gave him facilities for accomplishing'- his taskj denied to ordinary Europeans. He seenfis, however, , to h^ye lingered .. abouji the ; scene of his : faild re', 1 witli'tKe result' of being cruelly murdered after formal! hostilities had ceased. ■'■'■>' '< ; -' ■•' '•' ''■ '■'■

A curious adventure happened to one of our soldiers jni the Spidan. ' Troqper, Grubb was a man belonging to the, 2nd. Life Guards, and m tsoine' inscrutable fashion lost his regiment out m. tjie desert. The regiment came' back to '• England, home, and beauty," but no Grubb tofith it, and the soldier's comrades mourned the uiisuing man and gave bim up for lost. Recently .Trooper Grubb, as brown as a bronze penny, walled jinto the iavairy' Barracks, Windsor, 'startled" the with the idea of a ghost, duly reported himself , and received: an ovationi With real British pluck. Grubb, it -appears, when he fpmid out that his regiment had disappeared, quietly sat down to map out, his. course back to the. Nile, and- by dint 6i h&rcUridingj hard' fighting, and dare-devil gallantry made his Way to the confines of ciyilzation.