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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 46, 22 February 1879, Page 4

■ . _ || |.._ Our volunteers who intend visiting Nelson will have to meet sonic very fine shots this time, if men of Sub-Lieut. Rogers's stamp are common. Firing lately at the Vermont ranges, in Marlborough, at the long distance ranges, he ran up a score of 62 out of a possible 70, though the weather was somewhat against fine scores. The second man — also a good shot— could only mark 49 — New Zealander. The death of Major Whytc-Melville, through being thrown by his horse when hunting across a ploughed field near Malmesbury, after the Vale of White Horse hounds, is an event deeply to be deplored by all lovers of good novels. For twenty-five years he had occupied a prominent place among writers of fiction, having made his first essay in 1853 with the autobiography of " Digby Grand." Before that he had been a captain in the Coldstream Guards, and when the Crimean war broke out he accepted a commission in the Turkish cavalry. The experience there gained he embodied in one of his subsequent novels, "The Interpreter." This was followed in quick succession by a long series of popular works, the last of which has just finished its course in one of the mag-zines. There was no symptoms of exhaustion in Major Whyte -Melville's fertile mind his pleasant brightness and breeziness remained with bim till the last. The London correspondent of the Cardiff Times gives this bit of mysterious gossip :— • "All the world is talking of a peer of the realm, a bridegroom of only a few weeks, who since his marriage has broken out in the wildest and most eccentric way, and is behaving himself so strangely that if his conduct continues, an asylum must be sought for him. As captain of a corps, he took his men to church, left them at the door and retired to a hotel, there got drunk, became forthwith so generous with his gold that tbe waiter netted several weeks' ep rning by one morning's work, and finally gave instructions which had to he countermanded by his colonel. Next day he was distributing £5 notes to his hostlers. He makes nothing of ordering a special train if he wants to go a short distance. A pleasant state of things this for a bride. It is to be hoped that she can solace herself with the coronet which was so remorsely forced upon her." A well-known Eurekan made up his mind for a little trip to San Francisco on Monday, and was very anxious not to miss the train. He cautioned his wife to rouse him at the proper hour, and had just got into a sound sleep when his faithful spouse woke him suggesting that it was tinie to get up. He did; found it was only midnight, and retired again. Soon he was aroused, and this time, consulting the clock, it proved to he ronly two a.m. Somewhat disgusted and angered at being so often broken of his slumbers, he again sought his couch, admonishkig hia wifo thus: "Look here, you keep your elbow out of my back, and your mouth ont of my ear, till morning." Feeling herself relieved of any further responsibility, she went to sleep for good, and her. lord and master to wake when he chose, which was at low o'clock. Thinkiug it would not pay to try to get any more sleep, he built a fire, put on his hat and overcoat, took his valise in his hand, and sat down before the fire for a few minutes. Meanwhile his wife slumbered on until seven o'clock, when she woke to find him gone, whereat she felt quite badly, saying she intended to have got a warm breakfast. Leisurely proceeding to dress herself, she sought the kitchen, where, to her astonishment, she beheld her husband, equipped for his journey, satchel in hand, Bitting bolt upright in his chair above the stove, fast asleep, with the train gone over an hour. Let us draw the curtain. — Eureka Sentinel.

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