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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 16, 7 August 1885, Page 13

*s§jThe following amusing little anec lote is told bj the N. f. D. JVeivs:— When the Russian ironclad Mmm was a Nagasaki lately, H. M. S. Audacious was there also, and when the Mmm we t to sea, the Audacious followed. Steam fast, half speed, or slow, the British ship followed the Kus-rian uatil the latter cast anchor to see what his friend who was so very attentive would do next. Almost ftft once the Audacious dropped her anchor about half a mile, just about the distance she had preserved at sea, astern of the Minin. While the captain and officers of the latter were waiting for the next move, the Englishman ran up a signal to the Russian, " Come on board to dinner." But he did not,