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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 16, 14 August 1885, Page 13

The private in the 19th Hussars whose letters from Egypt ara published in the new number of the Nineteenth Century, gives some interesting information about General Earle's death. He was killed after the whole of the enemy's position had b n ea taken, because he insisted, against warnings, in " poking his h*>a t into a mud-hut " in which some •' rebels " were secreted :— " The man who shot him was brought out of the house by Major Slade, and was instantly cut into a hundred piece*. There waa another bouse found, with a horse and camel, and iuside were 26 men and their store of ammunition, and the whole lot were burnt alive in the house, and blown to atoms by the continuous exploding of ammunition ; the horse and camel were also burnt to a cinder." London Truth says :— " General Earle was a brave man and deserves all credit, which is more, it seems to me, than can be said for ' his avengers,' "