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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 20, 11 September 1885, Page 23

It is announced that the Queen has granted four pensions of £50 aye.reachto the Misses Power, of Memon-squaref sisters of the late Frank Power, whose tragical end in the Soudan is still fresh in the oubhc memory. Mr. Power was for some time a member of the staff of ibis journal, and few Pressmen were belt r known in Dublin Wben Edmund O Donovan set out on what unhappily proved to b« the last of Ins adventurous missions as a war correspondent he wa. accompanied by Power. ODonovan left Khartonoi with Hiok! Paaha d army, which was subsequently annihilated so utterly that not a single ma., survive.! to tell the tale of the catastrophe that bef-11 it and Power escaped the general diuuter through beioi £ eufeebled by ill.ie*. that he was un.ble to advance with the trouW In t»e siege of Khartoum he played an important part, and uS only when th, defence of the city was drawing to a cloae that hi attempted with Colonel Stewart to make good his way down th! Nile. A few days more and the safety of the travellers would have been assured, but their steamer was wrecked and they themselva. slain. Mr. Power s letters to his mother and sisters make, next to Gordon a own book, the most interesting record of a memorable and fatal siege. — Dublin Freeman,.