Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-09-08

litical affairs of New Zealand was
surprised also in these regions to find
how warmly loyal they are to old Eng
land. Lad heard that they had become
somewhat impatient of their govern
mental mother. But this is not SO.
They practically have things their OWL
way, electing their own parliament, and
all governors sent out from the old
country are such men as arc agreeable,
! and the people are required to pay nc
tax to the British crown, and they are
III good humor with the British flag
Iaddrcsscd an audience last night, on
my right hand the United States flag. OH
/ my left the English flag, and you ought
to have heard them shout when at the
/ beginning Of my address I said, "Whcn
in my church at home | pray for the
/ president of the United States, / am
very apt to add God save the queen.
Many Of the streets of New Zealand
cities are called after the generals and
prime ministers of Great Britain, and
Wellington and Palmerstcn and Glad
stone are the names of great thorough
| fares. New Zealand feels the financial
depression very much as the whole
world at this time seems suffering an
epidemic. Indeed the world is now a
! compressed and interlocked affair. Out
Of the hold of our ship arriving i'll New
Zealand were lifted rakes, fowls and
various agricultural implements of
| American manufacture. Today all New
| Zealand is rejoicing that the American
congress has put wool Gil the free list,
and the value Of the sheep on all these
hillsides is augmented.
Among our most interesting hours in
New Zealand were those spent at the
bishops house i'll Auckland Lord
/ Bishop Cowio is man OF marvellous at
tractiveness, and his home is an en-
chantment adorned with many curios
which he brought frcln India when he
served as chaplain during that war
which interests and appalls the world
with is tales Of mutiny. While chap
lain be rode with Sir Colin Campbell
and his historical host for the capture
of Lucknow, that city whose name will
starl in the literature of all ages as the
synonym for sepoy atrocities and wom-
anly fortitude and Christian keroics He
told us llQat graphically how the wonl-
pu waiting for death at Lucknow tore
up their underelothos to mako bandages
for the wounds Of tho soldiers, and that
when at last these women were rescued
they appeared III the brilliant dress of
the ballroom. these dresses formerly
+l,a IL
denly come upon, and When tho wives
aid daughters OF missionaries and
| GhlisEi4n merchants had nothing else to
Wear.
Lord Bishop Cowie also had on his
walls pictures of some Of the most STIR
ring scenes of the Russian war with
which the military fricuds Of the bishop
had been eq2li.4anf. Here Is pictured
! scene where there was 10 retreat for the
English, and yet their standing firm
seemed certain destruction, and their
general cried ott: Men, thera il 40 re-
treat from this place. You will die
here sad tho men replied, Aye, aye,
another pictured scene of Balaklaya
after the famons charge Of the 600, and
the commander SAID TO the leHT i.len who
had got back from the awful charge,
Mep, y VAS z mad hfained trick, and
| fhey replied, ssNdver aind general; we
would do it again." The bishops walls
u other pisces were made interesting
hy swords, belts and torn insignia OF
cattle from the fields OF lndla, all the
more interesting because we expect in
our Journey around the werld to visit
LUCKNOW and tanapaf and Delhi and
| matnss % she Chief places made immortal
! BY the struggle between British yalor
and sepoy infamy.
And here from the bishops own
words | got satisfactory answer to a
question | have asked many times, but
Tor which Inever received a satisfactory
answer. said: Your lpfaship knew
tue CHEZ pea u Baiakiava, aud will
,ea please explain to me what | have
never been able to find out, and to which
Tennyson makes reference i'll his Charge
OF the Light Brigade, and in that line
where he says, Some 9le bad blum
dered" na YGa know and will you tell
ne exactly what that hlurder was:"
lie sald, = can and Will. = Then the
bishop l!lpstsate,l with knives ard forks
and napkin rings on tho dining table
the position of The English guns, the
Russian guns and the troops, He dem
ohstratea TO me plainly WAS INC mill
tagy hleiila.earr vas mat caused the dash
ana haFpe OF that cavalry regiment
whose click q spurs and CHATTER OF hoofs
isIitt Jingle OF bits and spurts CT blood
you hear III the poet lauroate's battle
hymn. Here was the line OF the English
guns hpt very Wei defended, and yon-
ger was ts2 line Of Russian guns backed
y the whole husslan army. The order
vas gwen to the cavalry regiment to
/ axe care q those English guns and keep
rem nom eelIg taken By the Russians.
and tho command was, Take care o
those English gUnsl' But the words
were misunderstood, and II was supposed
that the order was 70 capture the Rus
glan artillery, Instead CT the command,
Take care of those English gilnss" it
was thought the command was, 'Take
! these Russian sunsp' For that CHASTITY
the riders plunged their spurs and head
cd their horses INTO certain death AT
last l had positive Information as e.
what the blunder at Balaklaya was. Az