THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 2, 1878
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 2, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 2, 1878.—403 CYPRUS : SIR GARNET WOLSELEY HOLDING A RECEPTION IN THE KONAK, NICOSIA, AT THE TURKISH FESTIVAL OF BAIRAM. correspondent, Mr. Thomson, one of whose sketches is engraved this week. The supposed Bite of Old Paphos, said to have been founded by the Amazons, or else by The High Commissioner for her Majesty's Government in Cinyras, the father of Adonis, would lie close to the seashore, Cyprus, Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet Wolseley, K . C . B . , near the present village of Konklia, which is seen indicated holds his official receptions in the Konak, the courthouse of towards the left hand in this view; it was here that Venus, the late Turkish Governor, at Nicosia, the capital city. whom the Greeks called Aphrodite, was fabled to have been Upon the occasion of the Mohammedan festival of Bairam, born of the white sea-foam. Huge remnants of masonry at which commences with the new moon after the Fast of this place are considered to belong to the ancient temple of Ramazan or Moslem Lent, Sir Garnet Wolseley, adopting the that goddess. On the hill to the right hand, several miles custom of his predecessors, received all the notables of the distant, is the modern town of Baffo, which has superseded town and island. This visit is the subject of our Illustration, another Greek city, called Neopaphos, erected there by Agafrom a sketch with which we are favoured by Lieutenant Allan penor, grandson of Lycurgus, and inhabited by a colony of Gilmore, of the Gist Regiment, Assistant to the Chief Com Arcadians. Neopaphos was a nourishing city under the mandant of Military Police in Cyprus, and now commanding Romans. I t is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, four the local police at Limasol. His Excellency the High Com teenth chapter, as the residence of Sergius Paulus, the Roman missioner, in blue undress uniform, sits on the sofa, bis hnnds deputy or governor, before whom Paul and Barnabas appeared resting upon his sword ; an interpreter stands at his left hand. to declare the word of G c d ; and it was here that Elymas the The officer who appears standing in the right foreground is Colonel Biddulph, C . B . , sorcerer was struck with Ε. Α., Commissioner, with blindness. These asso whom are Colonel ciations give a more par Greaves, Chief Secretary ticular interest to our to the Government of View of Paphos, or Baffo Cyprus, Colonel the Hon. as it is now called. The J. Dormer, Assistant tents of the English Quartermaster - General, military encampment are Colonel Baker RusseU, shown upon the cliff near 13th Hussars, Assistant the town. Military Secretary, also The first meeting of Surgeon - General Jack the Executive Council has son, C . B . , and Colonel been held, and active Brackenbury, R . A . , Chief preparations are being Commandant of Military made for occupying the Police. Major the Hon. time of the Legislative H . Wood, 12th Lancers, Council. Among the first and Captain Hare, 22nd measures submitted to Regiment, members of this body will be a pro the staff, with Captain J . posal for the conversion De Lancey, 71st High of tithes into some other landers, commanding the form of charge, probably military police of Nicosia, into the form of a landand Lieut. Gilmore, were rent limited in duration also present. The Turkish and open to revision. A and other native visitors Customs tariff will be of the High Commissioner enacted; a scheme con appear in the opposite sidered for a judicial part of the Engraving, to organisation, the novel the left hand. The Cadi, features of which will or Mussulman Judge, consist in a Chief Justice attired in a green robe with appellate, civil, and and turban, is gravely original criminal juris making his bow to Sir diction, and in a Puisne Garnet Wolseley. Rifaat Judge who will embrace Pasha, in a dark blue the island in his circuit. military uniform, with a Matters of administration red fez on his head, sits and social order will re in the chair behind, hav ceive consideration; and ing another Turkish the whole criminal law officer on his right hand, will probably be changed, and on his left a Moham either by the enactment medan grandee inapurple 1. P a r t of d y n a m i c e l e c t r i c a l m a c h i n e for c o n t i n u o u s c u r r e n t s : a, r e v o l v i n g c i r c u l a r m a g n e t ; t , b, conductor b r u s h e s to w i r e coils in its entirety of the above a n d b e l o w . robe, with red fez and Indian Penal Code or by 2. M a c h i n e for a l t e r n a t e c u r r e n t s , w i t h eight m a g n e t s b y t u r n s i n contact w i t h c i r c u m f e r e n c e w i r e c o i l s : a , a, w i r e s c o n v e y i n g e l e c white turban. The chief the introduction of the t r i c i t y to t h e c a n d l e s . of the Dervishes occupies principles of English 3. T h e J a b l o c h k o f f c a n d l e : a, a , t w o c a r b o n r o d s , i n s u l a t e d b y p l a s t e r , b; t h e i r lower ends i n b r a s s t u b e s , c, c. 4. B a s e s of oandles secured b y s p r i n g c l i p s to f r a m e , c o n s t i t u t i n g t h e l a m p : a , a , conductors f r o m m a c h i n e . a chair to the extreme criminal law as codified 5. T h e l a m p , or c h a n d e l i e r , s h o w i n g candles i n p o s i t i o n . left of the view. These in the bill prepared by visitors, seated around Sir James Stephen. M. JABLOCHKOFF'S ELECTRIC LIGHT APPARATUS. SKETCHES IN CYPRUS. the stone-paved hall, partake of coffee, sweetmeats, and cigarettes handed to them by the Greek servants, and hold quiet converse with, each other, or even, by the help of an interpreter, with the T5nglish official gentlemen. Another Sketch by Lieutenant Gilmore presents a view of the head quarters' camp of Sir Garnet Wolseley, at the Greek Monastery, a mile or so outside the Baffo gate cf Nicosia. The monastery building is shown to the left hand ; the tents pitched for the abode of his Excellency and of the Staff occupy the middle ground, and there are some farm or villa buildings to the right; and a noble range of mountains in the background of this view. We have already given one Illustration of the head-quarters' camp, from a sketch by our Special Artist, " S. P. 0 . " He made an excursion to the western coast of the island, just before he was taken ill of fever, but was unable to go to Baffo, or to inspect the reputed site of the ancient Paphos, renowned in Greek mythology as the abode of Venus. For our Illustration of this locality we are indebted to another