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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 68, 15 August 1874, Page 12

The 86th Eoyal County Down Eegiment received a very high complement from Lieutenant General Sir A. Connynghame on the occasion of its annual inspection on the 30th and 3lst of March, at Capetown. Addressing Colonel Jerome, General C'onnynghame said that he had had nearly every regiment of infantry in the service, at one time or another under his command, and that he had never inspected " a handsomer, or more athletic body of men" in his life. Sir A. Connynghame complimented the men highly on the precision and steadiness of their manoeuvring, and on their careful attention to all the details of their tenue. " The Regiment," continued General Connynghame, " I consider most efficient, and ready for active service whenever called upon. ... It has been my lot to command a regiment 1080 strong, of which 999 were Irishmen j and though I have been repeatedly told that Irishmen are improvident and reckless, I never found it so, but on the contrary, that if they were properly managed they were the bravest, most warm-hearted, and best conducted soldiers in the world." The following telegram was sent ,from New York to various parts of the United States on April 28 : — " Obediah Bound, oged sixty, living at Richmond, Staten "Island, went to a newspaper office here } yesterday evening and wanted the best reporter on the paper to cake home with him last night and prepare a sensation for to-day's reading. The reporter accompanied him home, and, after Bound had spent two hours giving him a history of his life, he coolly exclaimed, cMr reporter, I shall be a corpse in a few minutes ;' he then swallowed a rery iarge dose of laudanum, and, to the horror of the reporter, was soon dead. Bound inherited 850,000 dols. a few years ago, and had run through it all in dissipation."