The Strange Case of Archibald Forbes.
Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 225, 22 October 1887, Page 7
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The Strange Case of Archibald Forbes.
On August 23rd last it was announced that the career of this famous war correspondent was near an end. Major J. B. Pond, of New York, to whom he was under engagement for a course of lectures in the United States, received a telegram from London on that date to the following effect : " My health is wrecked. Cancel everything, — Akchibald Fokbes." And it was understood that the sender was in the last stages of consumption, and had not much longer to live. Now comee the news that Forbes is rapidly recovering, and, to use his own words, will soon be " quite ready to go to the wars again " in the lecture- fields of America. The public do not readily catch on to the situation. A London paper, mentioning the peculiarities of tho correspondent, says—" Mr Forbes is in his 50th year ! He is not a widower now, but he still retains some of his bad campaigning habits. For example, he often sleeps on the couch in his library, trying perhaps the 30 pipes which decorate his mantel. He was in bed on jubilee drfy,bub that did not prevent him writing a spirited description of the service in tho Abbey for the Daily News !
A pamphlet has been circulated in St- Petevsburg announcing that the rcorganisa. tion of tho Nihilists has been successfully completed. Nihilism is fast spreading in Siberia, where, during August, forty five guards absconded, and twenty -three prl. soners escaped,
