PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 183, 16 June 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

FRONT HANK Lord 1)< i by is fifty-one t«\*vs of age. Both his sons, Lord Stanley, of the Grenadier*, and the Hon. G<<o;ge Stanley,' of the Yeomanry, art) at the Front. •* ■* * Tli e youngest general in the British army is said to lie Brigadiei-Genera I Ford, who is only thirty-lour years old. He is a son-in-law of Sir John Har-mood-Banner, .M.P. * * * Mr. McKonna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, row,od bow in i!k> Cambridge eight which beat Oxford in l sv i. He also helped to win the Grand and Stewards' Cups at Henlev. * * * Since Prime Heni v was in the Kt >n <l.l .1 . lie is said to have developed into on ■ ot the crack shots of the corps-. He has always liked firearms a.id handles them like an old hand. * * * General Brauiwell Booth, commander ot the Salvation Army, who recently iv.'lcbraud his sixtieth birthday, attended the City of London School at tin- same time as .Mr. Asquitli. He began his Salvation work at twelve year* of age. * * * Mi. H. B. Irving, tiie famous actor, liist sunlit) tor the law, and was ea'i. d m the Bar uhen he was twentvlour. II c is now forty-six \ears of age. Curiously enough, his h iMiy is criminology, and l,e lias written nnuT about I a iiiiuis criminals and eii.r#. w * * Captain "Moggie" Scliwai"'., at j)i out serving in France is the famous South Afri'-an "googliv howler who ;n I'.MI-t. playng against Oxford University. took live wickets for twenty-fowii runs, and thus established ] i»n>elf as a lii st-elass " trundler.'' * * * Lord .Idiocy, who has lost a second son iii the war, is probably the greatest coal-owner in the United Kingdom. His father worked ».i the pits, and that fact lends an added appropriateness to the family coat of arms, in which two miners' picks and two Shetland ponit s stand out prominently. * * * Commodore Tyrwhitt, who commanded the ♦•miners and destroyers in a le(ellt raid on the German Zeppelin base, commanded the Arothusa when the attack was made on Heligoland Bight in ih" first month of the war. Alter that battle he got a telegram of congratulation from 2,05 l miners whi. n cast that number of ponce. •Ir * "X" Sir Douglas llaig. British Command-er-in-Chief in franco, has a keen sense of humour and a gift of repartee. A big blustering sergeant was cursing two men lor being careless with ammunition and shouted, "\ou 11 send us all no to Heaven like a rocket.' 1 Sir Ooujihis chipped Hi : "Unless you improve your language, sergeant. lin afraid \om may no in the opposite diroe-