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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 13, 20 July 1888, Page 27

Tne late Emperor William had a Yankee streak of humour in himIt is told that once at a hunt the huntsmen laid 28 head of game before him, which the- said he had killed. He smiled and quoted : 1 There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy ;" adding. " For is it not a miracle that I should h-ivu kilud 28 head while I had only 25 cartridges ! " United fcka f ea Cannul HornsUdc, in his report dated May 3of Captain Wig-nns' voyage by way of the North-we3t Passage from England around the North Cape, through the Kara Straits, and up the great Yenis-i River, states that about the furthest point reached was a viilag* called Sullivanova. Tins place is about 1000 miles up the river, and there Captain Wiggins in his third voyage found a warehouse and fishermen who give him every assistance. Ireland, it seems, is represented about as near the North Pole aa it is profitable to have business relations with.

A mural tablet is about to be erected in the crypt of St. Paul's to the memory of the seven journalists who lost their lives in the various Soudan campaigns between 1883 and 1886. The first and third names on the list are those of Irishmen— Kdmund O'Donovan, of the Daily Nem (son of the great Irish scholar), and Frank Power of the Times (sun of the late manager of the the National Bank, Dublin, and long known as '• Ghazi "of the Fnemari's Journal), These were amongst the most galiaut of the gallant mr n who fell in the discharge of their duties as Special Correspondents.