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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 14, 27 July 1888, Page 31

According to the Star, Mr. Charles Santley, the distinguished baritone (who is a convert), is at present educating and bringing up at least fire or six orphan children. He is, the came paper states, so generous in his offerings at church that he has been know* to deposit a cheque for £1,000 in the plate, | The Queen's literary reputation, established by the gossiping unaffected style of the *' Leaves from our Journal in the Highlands," suffered by the publication of the letter written to Miss Gordon upon receiving news of the General's death. For ungrammatical construction and a curious interweaving of German idioms, that was alamsntible specimen of Quean's English, I bear of a later composition which re-establishes Her Majesty's literary reputation. Whea there camn the news of the death of the Emperor William, closing the long psriod of anxiety with respect to the future of the Crown Priocsss, the Qusen telegraphed to the new Empress the following message : «• My daughter, my sister." Regarded simply from a literary point of visw, this exultant epigram is perfect. It comprises within four words thfc history of a lifetime.