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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1862, 23 September 1913, Page 4

The Secretary of State for War, Colonel Seoly, was an interested spectator at the Aldershct rifle meeting, and was placed in anything but'a. comfortable poiiuc.n bv an accident which occurred. . General' Sir Douglas Haig, Colonel Seely, and a group of staff »omcerg were standing on the Foxhills watching a team of the Grenadier Guards advancing to attack a group of mechanical targets on the hills. Just as tho Guards began to climb the hills ono of the team accidentally discharged a round of ammunition, and the bullet, striking the ground a little in front of him, ricochetted over the group on tho hill. Sir Henry Wiiitaker Tricket died at Waterfoot, Manfchastcif, recently. Deceased, who was fifty-six yours of ngo was head of tho firm of H. W. Trickett, Ltd., slipper manufacturers. He started basinets as a slippor manufacturer with half a dozen hands. At the time of his death he was tho head of a business with 1300 or 1100 employees, and was known as tho "Slipper King."