Not 100 Old at 80

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 July 1915, Page 2

Not 100 Old at 80

j LOI'D I:I {A.SSK\ \S .MISSION. ".SIMiKA.M'S" LA I'KST Tl!ll'. (I'Voin On j' Cot r< ■>) Hji i (.lon (..) London. -J 11 IK.' Ivirl I>i'ii-y ninl hi- t;illl<)iis v:iriit. llic Siuiiicjiln. are Id gll lo 1 lie Uard.'i | iielle.s .short ly !u a.ssisl in the lied (. j work. I ,i>l<l lira-soy announced (h.i I lift ii i in-< ■11 al a recruiting meeting al . Kasl liniinH'. "I liavc lint heen able lo ■ do 11111<■ 11." lie .said, '"but it hats hern agroat privilege to make a weekly vo,\- ' ago to France w iLli a hospital 11i|>. [ taking stores and wringing hack the wounded. New I am ujidcr order.-' ! Inr the Daidanelle.s" A ''Daily Chronicle" repn-sonlai i\<■ had a brief conversation with his lordship as lie le|'l .St Paul'sCatliedral la-l nielli alter attending t lie service n memory ol the Australians and No.-. Zealailder.s $Jio ha<l Fallen In the war, The veteran peer lie is in his eight i<-I I; year- is feeling Hie intirmilirs oi h;s years, and can only walk slowK with the aid ol' two .-ticks: hut ho u a.- ' nil of enthusiasm lor this I'resh adventure in his lamed yacht, n ndeil alien at an aye when most men would he glad *o rest al home. "Yes. I hope to gel oil' in a fortnight's time." he remarked, "and am looking fonvanl to il- very much." Qticfiiioned ;i,s to the reason lor (lie \oyage. his lorcl.slti|> said: "1 am going because the transport department verv much desire to have tin- Sunbeam there, and. oF coii'i'se. as her -kipper I shall go with her. Our work 'will he concerned with the wounded, in much the same way as \ have heen hitherto." Lord l?ra.-scy'.s mission will add n new and glorious chapter to the history of tin- Sunbeam, the eld-fashioned three-masted yacht in "which he sailed the seven seas, and which is known in almost every .quarter of the globe. , Lord ißrawvv is taking no undue credit in describing himself as j the Sunbeam's skip per. Ho is a '■'nil? j qualified sailor, holding a master mar- I iner's certificate. The Sunbeam. by J tin' way. is reckoned to have made vny-l ages aggregating somewhere,, abou!: I 3-jU.OOO miles.