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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 172, 8 November 1876, Page 2

Mr. Tennyson earns his £2OO a year ancl his pipe of sherry very easily. Though poet laureate for more than a quarter of a century, since Wordsworth died, April 25, 1850, the mimber of courtly poems which he has written might be numbered almost on the fingers of one-hand. People are asking why he has no welcome for the princely Ulysses on his return home. Surely there is theme enough in the Orient to fire the imagination of a less imaginative writer than Alfred Tennyson. One of the most extraordinary surgic l rumors yet is now afloat. (This time the Melbourne Hospital is out of the trouble.) It is to the effect that an operation for removal of internal tumour, after being declined at one public institution as undesirable, was attempted at another. The tumour was partially removed, and; the wound sewn up. The patient—a woman —died. There was a. post mortem,, examination. And now comes the astouncL'n* part of the story, which is that a sponge and a pair of bulldog forceps had been inadvertently left in the body of the patient by the operators !—(*'