A Brave Lieutenant.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3104, 15 January 1889, Page 3

A Brave Lieutenant.

Letters have been recoive-J furuishing particulars of. tho ongagoineut with a slavo dhow off tho Zanzibar coast oil the night of October 17th, resulting iff the death of Navigatinglioutenant Myler Cooper, of the . Griffon, A volunteer crow of six, alt told, under Lieutenant Cooper, were in the ship's steam-cutter off the island of Peinba. Tho dhow was sighted, and the steamer gave chase. « As she got alongside the Arabs fired a volley from their rifles right into her. Lieutenant Cooper was fatally wounded, but ho at once gave orders ■ for the attacking master-at-arms to take command, saying " Never mind me; take the dhow at all hazards." The Arabs continued tiring, and the caulker's mato was soriously wounded and very soon afterwards the sail maker's mate fell. The remaining three of the cutter's crew got up a gallant fight for an hour. Then the Arab crew of fourteen or fifteen ran i the dhow ashore and escaped, taking dead and wouudod with tlisin, The dhow contained ninety-eight slaves —men, women and children—several of them having been wounded in the engagement. When the capture of the dhow was reported to Lieutenant Cooper he said "Then secuwly anchor her and make the best of our way to the ship." This was done, but the officer died juat before reach■kg the Griffon. The other two Wounded were in hospital at Zanzibar The sailmaker was/doing well, but the caulker was in a critical condition, The Bad afljiir created a profound improssiou among officers and men engaged in the suppression of the slave trade,

THEATRICAL. Two theatres have been opened in London by ladies since I last wrote, says the London correspondent of the Argus. One, tbo Eoyalty, whore Mr George Giddens tried his fortune in the spring, is now re-christened the " Jodrell," after its ■ lady.nianager, She is married to a Mr Churchill, a relation of Lord Randolph's, and she is the niece and heiress of an uufor- \ tundte "squarson" (that is a squire Mi) » Person rolled into one), named TSev. Sir Edward RefTd Joddrell. This misguided gentleman onco goodnaturedly gave a testimonial to the vendors of a cheap kind of sherry, known as the " SpeoialM" sherry, or " Specialito", as it is morn ordinarily pronounced by the vulgar, and from that hour the reverend baronet was a lost man. He nas never able, by any process of law or reasoning, to force the proprietors of the sherry to ceaseadratising his hasty testimonial, and what between tlio a anoyance of constantly reading the thing, and the abuse he gjotirom the buyers of the article, he'faded away find died in 1880, leaving his large unentailed property to his sister, and after her to the niece, who has now embarked a portion of it in a theatre, which she has opened with a Russian, opera and a Russian company. The other Theatre, the Jlhafteslury, is built by a very wealthy cotton printer, Mr Lankester, who several years ago married a well-known Pro- . ajncial actress, Hi6S Wallis, who Hade an agreement that she was to Hive at home six months in the year, 1 and act on tour for Mx months in the year. The uxorious cotton printer used always to accompany lior on these tours; but the pair boing now disinclined for constant travelling, and the husband havin« relinquished his business activities, being immensely rich, they have come to London, and he has built her tho most perfect theatre in London, It is situated in theKew Shaftesbury Avenue, which has been cut through a region of wretched slums to conuect Regent-street and Oxford • street. Being yet more or less on its trial as a business thoroughfare, Mr Lankes. ter was ablo to ucquirc, on reasonable terms, a sufficiently large and absolutely detached site; and the Theatre which Mr Fhipps has built for him, with its thirteen exits for the audience and its surrounding refuge galleries, is probably the safest in the world, Miss Wallis is a handsome woman, but being the mother of several children, and having led for so many iftaara a trying "double life" she »|dturally looks rather drawn and worn'.—Her style is hard and stagey, and her roles Shakespearian. For ordinary London playgoers she has little attraction; but the gods like her, for as her own jime prtitikr once expressed it,' jf she leis "em toe it." $« i? flaying WW el.pretfent.

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