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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 22 May 1885, Page 7

Ayer's Sarsaparilla has such concentrated, curative power, that it is by far the best, cheapest, and surest blood-purifier known. It is very like an impecunious man endorsing a worthless cheque to find Chief Baron Palles fiating a presentment for £172 for extra police in the city of Limerick. At the assizes in that city on Saturday the corporation opposed the demand of the Government for this, £172, as they had previously opposed the demand for other sums. The Chief Baron reserved his judgment until Monday, when he gaye his decision in favour of the Crown. We cannot see that the Crown is put in any better position by this judgment. They may present their bill now, but as the citizens fail to see that they owe anything and refuse to pay one penny, and as the tax cannot be collected without a special Act of Parliament, we think the matter remains pretty much in statii quo. Chief Baron Palles's signature will not conquer the determination of the people of Limerick.— Nation. The late Lieutenant-Colonel Coveny, who was a native of New South Wales, and who was killed in the engagement at Kerbekan in the Soudan, is thus referred to by a correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, signing himself " M.8.H." :—''ln: — ''In De Nenville's picture of the battle of Tel-el- Kebir the most prominent figure is Robert Ooveny cheering on his men. He now has none to join his comrades who fell on that eventful morning. It was my privilege, in connection with the painting of that picture, to act as the intermediary betweed the artist and the principal actors in the scene. Full of pardonable delight at having this epieode in his regiment's history thus handed! down to posterity, Coveny was modesty itself as to the position tq be assigned to him. So anxious was he that every detail should be correct that he volunteered a visit to the artist in Paris, where on ■ seeing the picture, he expostulated against the prominence so rightly accorded to him. He had been wounded in the shoulder, and his tunic which he lent to the artist was stained with blood, but he would not allow this to be depicted in the picture, for as he jocularly t -marked, ' It wasn't bad enough for me to leave my men.' It was, however, sufficiently serious to necessitate his heing invalided .home, whence at the earliest moment he returned to his post, His 23 years of service include Ashantee, Tel-el-Kebir (nuntioned in despatches), El Teb, and Tamai. Some months ago you were so tood as to insert the contents of a letter he had written to me, in which ha protested against the proposed dole of money instead of a medal for the Soudan expedition of last year, for as he rightly said, the soldier much preferred his medal, which would cost a few shillings, to a much larger grant of money, which would be dissipated in a week. May I ask you to add these few lines of homage to the memory of one of Britain's bravest sons?"