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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 876, 17 September 1881, Page 2

The Duke of Wellington whose life'was for five years almost daily in peril on the battlefield, wan/for jearsafi'ainto travel by railroad, having conceived a terror of locomotive engines- through seeing Mr Hussiugton killed by one. At length in 1843, he mado his first journey, being in attendance oh the Queen, who herself did not use them'untill'lß42; The injury done to the railroad caused by the death of Hufsingtoii was ; in a 'great measure neutralised by the simultanpouj news that Mr Stephenson's locomotive engine carried tl)e v/oundei njan fifteen miles in~ twenty-flvd minutes, To the end of .their, lives some people in England uevey oould be brought to travel by railroad. While at Hampton recently the Prince of Wales suddenly found himself hailed as the King of Egypt. Some gipsies got round the Eoyal carriage, but-.while: Her .Royal Highness declined,to inquire too curiously into the future, the Prince, of Wales propitiated the dark-skinned children of Pharoah by purchasing from one of the fraterntty a couple of oubs. For tojs act of generosity he "was promptly hailed bj the Queen Gipsy as "King of Egypt.'?' ' The death has just occurred,at'Gdttin gen of the celebrated Orientalist and philologist Professor Theodore Beniey. Bom near that University town in 1809, the deceased,- after i classical career,was appointed professor there in 1848, since when he devoted himself with brilliant success to his favorite studies.-He war member of the Academies- of Berlin. Paris, Vienna, Munich,' and Pesth, and of the scientific societies of Paris and Gottingen, In him philology loses ont» of its most prominent laborers.

Her ilajeity the Que«n has comwanded thatthere be a Btone ereoted in Durban,. Natal, South Africa /with the following inscription:-" This stone is enoted W Quean Victoria to thei memory of Ja«ei Grant, of Crofts, Balmoral, for many years head forester to Queen Victoria and the. Prince Consort, and of Elizabeth Robbie, his wife. Born may 7, 1846, diod May 6, 1881. Beloved and »• i gretted by all who knew him. ' Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see" God.'" f. The death ef an old racehone is thut referred to by a correspondent of the Lytliltbh Timet:—" Last week the oels--brated hone Brandy died at Alford Forest, having 'keen in the ppiieiiion of MrJL Boulton for upwards "of was the first wiuner of a ">UrH| bury, having won the about 30 yearr'ago, and was probably nearly 40 years old,' In the race he wu entered as Mr Jordan's grey geldisg Brandy. The y cause of death certainly could not be premature decay in this can. Some 12 months ago his stable companion and associate died, and since then he has gradually failed in condition, as if mourning the death of an old friend,"