THE THROUGH TRAINS.

Evening Star, Issue 11453, 22 January 1901, Page 5

THE THROUGH TRAINS.

Passengers Thia Day. K>H DUJJEDIN FEOM THE SOUTH. lis Excellencv the Governor, Mr W. T. Boyd, Mr A. Cross, Mr R, L. Banks. Mr and Mrs Lodge; Miss M. G. Lesk, Mr E. S. Wardell, Mrs Pauling, Miss J. Pauling, Miss Ormand, Mrs Nichol and child. FROM DUNEDIN FOR THE SOUTH. Mr and Mrs B. Fuller, Mrs Wellstead, Miss Woods, Mrs Hawkins and two children, Mr and Mrs G. Carson, Miss M'Lean, Dr M'Lean, Mr O. Cahill, Mr and Mrs H. Cox, Mr E. R. Bowler, Mr J. H. Scott. Mr£. A. Thompson, Miss Drennen, Master •V. Ward, Misses Sprats.

A good story is going the rounds concerning a popular prima donna, who WTote for rooms at an American hotel. The manager refused to receive her as a guest unless she gavo her word of honor that no burglars should break into her rooms, and that her lady's maid should not leap from the fifth floor with £60,000 worth of" jewels in a handbag. These things, the manager said, did harm to his hotel. But"he had not the slightest objection to tho prima donna meeting with a carriage accident, if she desired to do so.

General Buller presided at a lecture on the siege of Ladysmith delivered at Queen's Hall, in London, on November 29. In a few closing remarks, Sir Redvers said there had never in the British Army been a more perfect example of discipline and endurance than that shown by the defenders of Ladysmith. So great was their exhaustion from tho privation, hard work, and great strain of the siege that when ho rode into the town, he sent an order for the men lining the road to sit down, and before the order could bo given ho counted sixteen men who had fallen. Yet every one of those men had tamed out equipped and ready to fight only a'day or two betore.