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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 705, 29 May 1879, Page 2

He was a bachelor, had travelled extensively, and could speak any language, dead or alive. Hieroglyphics were nothing to him. But when he returned home the other day and talked to his sister's baby, and when it cried and was pacified by its mother, saying, "Did his naughty waughty uncle wuncle come homey womey and scarey my little putsey wutsey," he just leaned over the back of the chair and wept.

The execution of Marshal Ney, on the 7th of December, 1815, is, it seems, an hisiorical myth He was not really shot in the garden of the Luxembourg on that day, but only appearently, and subsequently escaped to America, where he kept a school for many years, was much beloved and respected by his puplis, and finally died on Oct. 14, 1846, a peaceful death at Rowan, North Carolina, where he was buried in the graveyard near a Church called "Third Creek Meeting House," w The "Times" recommendß creditors of the City of Glasgpij fflfek to accept fifteen shillings on thVpound. It sayß the prymised call of £2,250 per share portends ruin to nearly every shareholder.