THE SOUDAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 148, 28 May 1885, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

. The lady superintendantofthe Gourds' Hospital, now out m the Soudan at the front, had extremely short notice to pro* pare for the desert journey — a matter of a few hours. It was however, long enough for the officers to present to ht» a watch set m a leather band which can be worn around the waist. The men, her principal patients, also presented her with a testimony of their appreciation of her services, skill and unfailing kindness. Two sisters accompanied the lady super* intendent, and while the latter'is pro. bably at Korti, the others are some two miles above Assouan. Their quarters consist of three tents, a sleeping and eating one, a bell tent for dressing, with a bath, and a tent for the pitchers. An Arab tends, cooks, and washes for the hospital staff. The cooking must be almost a sinecure seeing that the food mainly consists of tinned meat, tea and coffee and suettr, and hard biscuits. The field nurses wear scarlet cloaks, whit* aprons, and helmets lined with green, the same as the officers. The mosquitoes are reported very troublesome, and the rats at night very distracting. The journey up the Nile was made more in* teresting, the ladies write, by previous acquaintance with Miss Edwards' book, -•;•. A thousand miles up the Nile," and other works dealing with this and kindred subjects. The nursing sisters now m Egypt were there m 1882, and did good work at Tel-el-Kebir.

(electric telegbaph.— copyright.) yj (reutek's telegrams.) London, May 26. The Guards landed at Alexandria this morning and the order, which was issued .for the second army corps to proceed to India, has been annulled.