ABOUT PEOPLE

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 99, 29 December 1914, Page 2

ABOUT PEOPLE

Miss Christabei Pcnkhurst, addressing an audience at New Void;, eesler-■:-d t hat England was on the right side in this war. “I am proud,” she said, “to te a British, subject, prouder, than .or be)ore, as we ail are in Eng*- •' >■' nnnovinooit hi Be rim (rays KcusO,y rro Grr ra; ■. (h,r----10 i the klmhhrr of War in Saxony, v. Co cap com or, amice service in i- - ■ is uuncrh.y a;,;.: hmm disease -o, . _r. to irl’i A ou-hcir-i to take me at. D. Warn; Moyer:-. mo Welsh minors' lead Car mcrhvd commixh : hi he i . hk e.ha : k : hia (inninly miners) tf the •Velsh Army h, h , mid the in nun.■ hi nh rhe. h- •, . m anting biro. with e vorc and h- .v■' .I ■h ■ >, ,m Ahh •■. u hi Vv. hy: in Louden, tike Chevalier Luigi hr ,-i, who Cm mk< n ; aw lead in forming a VV-reign T,.nhon in ye on a<hivo sbrvle- . ;. v !:■■ or ■-■ h ied there fe.r ever forty years. Ho lew tl;o Rcya! Military College in G.\ly to join, tier famous pdtrlcij, ‘raising :t troop of vcluuteers at his own cost; ana his taste 'Of fighting' ! dia Austrians induced him to help t’.ie If reach when Paris was besieged by the Germans. Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred E. Oodringtou, who lias been appointed military secretary to Lord Kitchener, served in the Egyptian war of 18S2, being iueiKicued In dispatches and receiving the fifth-class kledjidie and the Khedive’s Star, in the So nth African campaign he was again mentioned in di-pniciios and received vac Queen’s ih'-ds! with three clasps and the King’s Medal with too clasps and a brevet rank of colonel. Ko was in command ci' .Load; n dihriok lboo 13. i o i or itcxourglie, who is I)acls from Lire Aveng seriously iwajunded, went to the war with his old regiment, the Loyal Hex sc Guards. Me had been •bsent from tin; regiment nor a number cl yours, with the retult that, on rejoining ir, as a ] Crate naive, he found hi .use! f junior tc hh yourmm h.rh'er, hero AlaMxiir lunoshbor wit: Is’ a captain. if -he: Del : ■•■■■■■.■ iho front he may go with the Lethians and Bor- ■ ■ rhtty , : . m which ho retired with the rank of x mjor. rr Llcti -’i Pmmmm is not, after hi, the first fc.roh Co has been .hc'-mi Lord Recdm of a Scottish Unirei’sity. Mr James Russell Lowell, poet •nd former nmemm \ ; -mcmaho}’.was herd Rector of St. Andrews in 1883. ••til! earlier, in IMS, when the PriuoinU of St. Andrews vetoed the election if >'ir Chalmers as Lord Hector, the umpired Mpdenrs elected the C»ar if Russia' Nicholas, who was at war .virli. Britain a few years 'later, probably never heard of the honour conn r ui on him. The Gaekwar of Barola is far wealthier than the King-Emporor .to whom

he -has proffered ail ha. troops and •escurces. The annual income of his highness Saya.it lUio TIT. amounts to tvev G1.000.d00, and his wA lection of reins is said to bo worth at least 22,000,000. When holding dnrbas his -Highness wears a necklnce- containing > diamond for which hr aw e £?O,lf*o. This is a Brazilian stone'of the Trsr wr-t&r. known as the of the ;c?.th, and icrniexdy belonged to N?pore n. The Gaekwcr, however, spends ’ money cn mere useful objects than ■on’s. Bs.rcda is iHmouss for the wis--Icm with which it is governed, and ter its splendidly equipped schools, built and endowed out of the Ga.ek.var’s private purse. One of the pluckiest acts performed by a British officer stands to the relit cf General Smilh-Dorrien-. During .he South African War his brigade, which included the Gordon Highlandiers, moved forward to take the main Tcer position at Dorwuhoy. The Bighenders dasixe-d up the It ill imnelnonsly ■A General ißniih-Dorrien, realising iieir (lai)gi--x ci being surrounded. set .It as fast as his horse conic gallop straight a cress the enemy's front in xrdev to turn thorn hack. Tim onlookers held their breath as a had of bullets i)oaj up the earth Hi rot;ml the 'n trap id rider, Inn he carom through mspalhed, cad having succeeded in iils' ,h:B"Vk cos.Ay hn'innwei to his ns in Ac rc; v ci’ the troops, a lie ;os .'S'nan; ,<• g-mc-cy a:,s ■ lams -. or tee Alack as liiovgh he , . in; cnerdslng 'roop-s on the parade ground. Several mere of the Gemnais who list inguisheii. iixemse!'' s in An Souih yfriern war are now hoing rccaliefj to he colours in order to rake command of the dim mens of the new -army in •‘recess cf formation. The latest list >f these apnciuTnentf; is distinctly iit‘cresting, says our London correspondent, since it contains the names of Lie-ribnant-General Sir Bryan Mahon, D. 5.0., and Majcr General it. G. Kokevh it. It t.lcpctpi Mnbo.n. !• may be rocaßed, who Hissted the relief of sakkins, while it was due to the. slurb and military ability of General Kckewiali that Kimberley, kept the ; ag; dying until Sir John French was able to clash tc it.- relief Ah hit Hry division. To find those names in •be same lists is a good anuury, while, another well known name vital figure.-; imeng the new divisional commanders that of Major-Genera! T . Spcns, o rnce well known Hampshire county ■rif'boVr. All {he.se pcnr.v.l.? wil’ rake tver their positions almost iuunodiitoly. and wil! begin to or-,rr.J te their j huffs in order that as little time as icssible may be lost.