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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 14, 18 December 1878, Page 2

Feom the latest English telegrams published m our last. -issue we learned that both the Erincesses 'Louise and Aiioa were seriously ill, the former b>;jng suffering from ii severe attack of diptheria. I'here was nothing, howeTer, to lead us to suppose that there was any. real danger m either ease, and therefors* the "news of the death of the Princess .Alio'b will be receired with general . sinjprisalaiid. I'dbep regret. The Ifrincea^' was perhaps of. the- Queen's. five daugjiters fhe greatest 'favorite 'with the English people, -tcrwtiom she was endeared by lier excellent and amiable qualities, and with the Princess ©£ Wales equally snared theiraffections. ISH'e >^fcincessAlio^ Mirio Maby was the second daughter and third child of Her Majesty, hating been born on the^2sth ot April, |843 i &"<i CQiVaequently was thirty-fire years of age on he» lastbirfhijay* She was married on the. Ist of July, 1862— six rnQnths af,|er her fatlier's deith— to Prince Louise of fiesse, by whom she 'has had »ii -children": Alt hougli'- Ser MAJEBXX has bad nine childreh' and twentysix Vgrand-cnildreti, ' tho 'grim reaper ' has hitherto paii ; but few-^sits 'to if.h^ fA«ni!yi as since the death of the jßrinee Oohaiirt m Pjeqember, 1861, until how,, but one of the second generation has : passed a\Vay, and that was one of the "dead Princess's children, who lost it? life through falling fr&m a wi'iidqw. - ■