GENERAL NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 61, 15 March 1915, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

Lady Scott, writing to the. editor of the "New Zealand Referee" from London, under date of January 19th, says: "I have' only just returned from Prance, where .1 am busy with a hospital for French soldiers near the Alsatian frontier I am

very grateful to you and the sportsmen of Xew Zealand for entrusting the execution of the bust of my late husband to me, and 1 very much hope to see it in place iii your country some time in the not far distant future."

Mr J. Sinclair-rnomson, of "The Crossing," Geraldine, whose eldest son —Lieutenant Kenneth Sinclair-Thom-son, of the 21st Indian Cavalry—was recently killed in action in Persia, has received the following message from the King and Queen, dated from the Royal Pavilion, Aldershot:—"The King and Queen deeply regret the loss you and the Army have sustained by the death of your son in the service of his country. Their Majesties truly sympathise with you in your sorrow."

Of the modesty of the wounded, Dr. Chappie, M.P., speaks very highly. He has met no "Bill Adamses," and when he congratulated a man who had received the Victoria Cross and the Legion of Honor he replied, "Oh. that's nothing, sir. I only got them because, there weren't enough to go round." This man's name was O'Brien, from Tipperary; his father was a T.C., and his first child was born the day he won his honour.

lii reference to the award of a distinguished conduct medal to Sergeant Cecil Humphries, a private letter, written 'about February 1, has been received by an Eltham resident in which Humphries states that he was the only one of his section left in the famous bayonet charge of the Manchesters. When Humphries joined he was in the Army Transport Corps, and rose to Sergeant, but on joining the First Manchesters had to join as a private. It will be seen by the cable that he has now regained his stripes.