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 NOTES BY THE WAY.

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��Mr. Hales, Sydney Morning Herald, captured.

Mr. George Lynch, Morning Herald and Echo, captured, released, in hospital with enteric fever, now in England.

Mr. M. H. Donohoe, Daily Chronicle, captured, probably released on 5th of June.

Mr. A. Graham, Central News, missing since May 21st, supposed captured.

Mr. A. F. Hellawell, Rev. Adrian Hofmeyr, Lady Sarah Wilson, all Daily Mail, captured.

Lord Rosslyn, Daily Mail and Sphere, captured.

Mr. James Milne, Reuter's, captured.

Mr. John Stuart, Morning Post, nearly blind after siege of Lady- smith, recovered, now ill with dysentery.

Mr. W. Maxwell, Standard, enteric fever during siege of Ladysmith, recovered.

Mr. Alfred Kinnear, Central News, enteric, invalided home.

Mr. Jos. S. Dunn, Central News, twice captured, enteric, recovered.

Mr. W. Martindale, Mr. W. S. Swallow, and Mr. Charles Bray, Central News, enteric, recovered.

Mr. F. A. Stewart, Illustrated London News, down with dysentery at Durban.

Mr. W. T. Maud, Daily Graphic, laid up with enteric fever after Ladysmith, and invalided home.

Mr. Bullen, Daily Telegraph, invalided home.

Mr. H. W. Nevinson, Daily Chronicle, in hospital with fever, now recovered.

Mr. J. A. Cameron, Daily Chronicle, enteric, permanently invalided.

Mr. Brayley Hodgetts, Express, invalided with enteric.

Mr. Lester Ralph, Mr. H. Lyons, Mr. R. C. E. Nissen, and Mr. L. Oppenheim, Daily Mail, invalided.

It is of interest to note that the first War Correspondent Henry Crabb was Henry Crabb Robinson, who, when the Spaniards rose against the French in 1808, was entrusted by the conductors of The Times correspon- with the duty of special correspondent in the Peninsula.* It is to the enterprise of The Daily News that we are largely indebted for the first war correspondence by telegraph instead of by post. This was done at the suggestion of the late Sir John Robinson, during the Franco-German War, when Archibald Forbes was its correspondent. Mr. Fox Bourne, in his book ' English Newspapers,' states that, mainly by the graphic letters which appeared in its columns, the paper rose from 50,000 to 150,000 a day. This correspondence included ' The Diary of a Besieged Resident in Paris,' by Henry Labouchere. In this war The New York Tribune had the most expensive telegrams of any paper. These were arranged for by Mr. G. W. Smalley, the New "York correspondent of The G.W.Smalley Times ; and as there was an alliance between The Daily News and the Tribune providing for the use of each other's telegrams, the readers of the London paper no doubt received much benefit.

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��Archibald Forbes.

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��Dictionary of National Biography,' xlix. 16.

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