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Temuka Leader, Issue 332, 23 December 1880, Page 2

From the Broad Arrow we learm that Sir Donald Stewart, at a recent meeting at. Simla, paid a .very marked and graceful tribute to the army chaplains in the field of Afghanistan. . how he saw a certain Roman Catholic man attending to the womfeed fighting line of a British. and, how he found anothei'-bhaplaiu i/.- r<f energetically engaged in "rallying/ ' h\s stick : £grae native .cavalry wHo endeavouring to execute strategic move- I rnent to the rear. “ This,” added the I ;(a}Cneral. “ was very good work.” The ! Rev. Thomas Jackson, a missionary'.! priest, especially distinguished himself^!

at Khushk-i-NakhiK'i ; was present in the thick of the bau <, and shared in the terrible retreat. T > iiese might be added tho name of tin* Rev. G. M. Gordon, who, though he was professionally a missionary to the natives, died nobly while filling his self-elected occupation as a volunteer army chaplain. The Committee of the Working Men’s Club’s had a peculiar task the other day* It was to select from amongst over 40 couples, who each presented themselves for personal a fitting pair to to whom to entrust the stewardship of the Club. The task was as may be imagined, i. delicate one, but it was gone through the utmost impartiality, and a newly X arrived couple got the billet. The wages it may be said, were £2 a week with everything found. It may also be added that the 40 odd couples with each “ without encumbrance.”