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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2849, 14 August 1916, Page 5

One .remarkablo revelation may (writes a correspondent of tho "Manchester Guardian") without impropriety be made about Lord Kitchener. It is that he had, a sort of foreboding of an accidcnt at sea. So much was this the case that ho never crossed from Dover to Calais iv it lion; wearing a lifebelt waistcoat, one that he had specially made for him in Egypt before lie made his famous advanco on IChaVtoam. Though so often on' the sea and au excellent sailor, he detested a sea passage, '-nil never felt comfortable on boiirjl any ship. Ho always complained that tho' sea affected his otherwise excel-. lent sight—excellent, that is, considering hia -"jo and how much ho had been exposed to a tropical sun. Another curious point was that, whilst ho always acquired curios in any part of the world in which he might be, he took caro never to allow his purchases to bo on the vessel on which he was a passenger. Liout.-Coloncl Thomas Dowling was summoned a£ Bishop Auckland Polico Court, Durham, for the non-paymont of 58s. fid. distriot and water rato. The colonel, who is on active service, wrote objecting to pay for a house whioh lie had to close owing to his military duties. The Bench made an order and said that if the colonel had been serving his country without cost to the country their decision might have' been different,