MR ARCHIBALD FORBES’ LECTURE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1264, 1 February 1883, Page 2

MR ARCHIBALD FORBES’ LECTURE.

WARRIORS I HAVE KNOWN. The attendance at Parnell and Boylan’s Hall last nioht was but. limited, but those who were present, were treated .to a most enjoyable hour and a half with the most celebrated warriors of modern times. Mr Forbes handled his subject in a masterly manner, as far as the lecture in itself

wai concerned, and related anee* o tei of the prowess and daring ef many of the great eotnmanderrs with whom he had, as a war eorresponden been brought into contact, No qi we imagine is more appreciated ’ gy man’s fellow-man than bravery, and even those who are merely re and who, unlike Sir John hals no t think that “ discretion i , the better part of valor,” have f agj f admirers. Ina General, however , R is essential that, in additior, to courage and determination, he Must possess cautiousness. Ylr Forbes, last evening, illustrated peculiar characteristics of the warr dors he had met, some of whom he hl .ghly eulogized. His opinion of Marsh’ll Baz.aine was not complimentary, whilst t» Generals Scobiduff, Sheridan, Roberts, President Grant, Osman Pashn, and others, he accorded praise lor their martial qualities in no measured terms Of Osman Pa-ha, wh.o gallantly held his position at P’<evna against the Russian thousands, t he lecturer said that had Turkey at the time of the Kusso-Turktsh war possessed two Osmans, the result ! might have b< en wonderfully different. To-night Mr Forbes gives his last lecture, entitled “All Europein Arms,” which has been highly spoken of by the Southern Press, and which should attract a large audience.