WILLIAM PENN

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 July 1911, Page 3

WILLIAM PENN

MEMORIAL UNVI'.I LED IN ENGLAND. ELBCTRIO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.J (Received This Dav, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. The first America.ll memorial in 'England to William Penn was 11,11veiTed to-day in All Hallows Church, Barking, where Penn was baptized. Many descendants, including Loiroil Rnnfurly, were present. (Chronicle Note: William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was born in l(i(>4. He became a quaker while at Oxford, and in 1(>88 ho appeared as preacher, and author of an essay "The Sandy Foundation. Shaken," and being imprisoned for it, wrote his celebrated "No Gross, No Crown." Tll 1082 he laid the foundations of his colony.)

KITCHENER AND NEW ZEALAND. At a subsequent dinner Lord Kitchener, responding to the toast of the armies of America and Great Britain and the Overseas dominions, said that Australia, possessed a College full of cadets, which was based on the principles of West Point. This proved the admiration of Britishers for an institution which provided America with officers. It also .showed the with which Australia, and New Zealand were studying .military problems.

(Chronicle Note: West Poinfc is the site of the United States Milit-i'-v Academy on the Hudsio.ni ive'r Tt is ioO miles north of New ork )