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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 52, 6 February 1869, Page 5

"Modern" amd AjsrciENT Egyptians. — The Arabs in the neighbourhood have so littfe respect for their ancestors that they are in the habit of using them as firewood. The cloth soaked ?ii bituifnen, burns very readily, and the body gives out a good flame, fthich is found, useful for cooking purposes, when there happens to be anything to cook. This "great custom of modern Thebans puts the funeral institutions of the Romans completely into the shade, for, although the Eomans burnt their dead, they never thought turning them to any account for culinary purposes. The Daily Telegraph says that Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet are ready to consider any counter-proposals made by the United States in the Alabama case. All .that can be honourably granted, will be granted." America can accept no less/ and desire no more. George Francis Train' has issued writs against the liord Lieut: of Ireland for 100,000 dbls. as damages for false imprisonment. Ones of the missing boats of the steamer Hibernian li as arrived off Donegal,' Ireland. It contained the second officer" of the Hibernian and twQ other persons. 28 embarked, but 25 J were,drownecCby. the "capsizing, of |heboat.' ' .