Not so un profitable waa a " spec " that he made while in New Zealand, His name appears on the share list of the Wanganui Gas Company, and as that company is doing splendidly, and paying a good dividend, the shares are worth a good deal more now than when he pur chased. His recollections of Wanganui will no doubt be favorable, and well impressed on his memory by the regular recurrence of a draft for his dividend. The Rev. Donald McCallum, parish minister of Waternish, Skye, formerly of Kamsay, gives a most deplorable account of the hard-heartedness and inhumanity of some of the Skye landlords- In addressing a meeting in Glasgow in favor of the crofter movement, he stated that he had published in the newspapers that the laird of the parish in which he officiated (Macleod of MocLeod) had not only his (Mr McCallum's) property (the Glebe), but also the churchyard, for his rabbits. The laird, in reply to this accusation, said that the minister was a liar, and that he had only four rabbits in the churchyard. MacLeod also maligned the parishioners out rageously, and said that he did not care although the rabbits ate the bones of their forefathers in the burying-ground. Mr Me- Callum has raken up the cudgels on behalf of the crofters, and does not spare the merciless landlords. He is in favor of Skye emigration to New Zealand. The lady superintendent of the Guards' Hospital, now out in the Soudan at the front, had extremely short notice to prepare for the desert journey— a matter of a few hours. It was, however, long enough for tho officers to present her with a watch set in a leather band, which can be worn around the waist. The men, her principal patients, also pre sented her with a testimony of their appre ciation of her services, skill, and unfailing kindness. Two sisters accompanied the lady superintendent, and while the latter is prob ably at Koiti, the others are some two miles above Assouan, Their quarters consist of three tents, a sleeping and eating one, a bell ttnt for dressing, with a bath, and a tent for the pitchers. An Arab tends,- cooks, and washes for the hospital staff. The cooking must be almost a sinecure, seeing that the food mainly consists of tinned meat, tea and coffee and sugar, and hard biscuits. 