Lie-ntenanf M. P. Morrison, wlm join-ed the-Roval Nnvy as a boy in 1872,' and assisted in finntr t.Tie royal cjiliito at Tavntnvp, when the Queen of 'Madagascar freed the slaves in her dominions, retired from tho Royal Navv on June 20, on attaining the agp of fifty-five years. Lieutenant Morrison landed at Alexandria in the force under the present Admiral Sir Percy Scott, and assisted in destroying the fortifications nml nlso in mminUmr (1-inch guns at Rnmeleh for defence against the enemy. Ho wns one of the fore-? renewed at: St. James's Park by the late Oueen Victoria after the war, and also fought nt the battle of To-Vrek, when engaged in the defence of Suakim.
Sir Rudolph Slafcin Paslm, InspectorGeneral of tho Sudan, who recently arrived in Vienna on leave, stated in an interview with Renter's correspondent that Lord Kitchener's popularity in Egypt might l)o gathered from the crowded slate of the- Agency in Cairo, where people of all classes enmo to beg his advico and assistance in all kinds of matters, very often trivial private affairs. They camo because they knew Lord Kitchener mado a point of receiving everybody; lie talked to them in Arabic, nnd showed- , a genuine deMre'to help them.
Mr. Eje.hnrd Selby Lowndes, who has become joint master of the North Buckinghamshire Harriers, has three brother* niMiir* r>f fogbound* in BuckinghamjeEtc- Heat, aud Sussex- ,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1523, 20 August 1912, Page 8
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229Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1523, 20 August 1912, Page 8
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