LORD WOLSELEY'S BLINDNESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1993, 18 May 1885, Page 2

LORD WOLSELEY'S BLINDNESS.

Lord Wolaeley's blindness is a myth, says a London'correspondent. He has not lost the sight of an eye, nor. is the sight of either in any degree impaired. The War Office had not heard of it when the officials saw the very positive statement in the Pall Mall Gazette the other night, and a message was at once despatched to Korti to know, if it was W k M Wf>) WjeW's health wag in any degree impaired. The answer has come, and the War Office has lost no time in sending it round to tlie' 'papers, The prevalent disease "of tlie Soudan desert, ophthalmia, has not affected the commander of our forces, who is, in all other respects, in excellent health. Lord Wplseley wjl} npt "return fromKortj, still legs' wjll' he be reqalle'd. True, the Army is to be shut up at the base fjf for four or five months; but it will tip equally necessaiy, as if they were on active operations, that hg should, repjn at his post, Some of the correspondents, are, I understand, pomjng fame. The newspaper proprietors do pot gee the need for keeping them out jn Egypt during the long period Qf inanition, and they have jn severa] instances been recalled, to return again to Egypt whon the next forward movement is contemplated,