SIR WM. BUTLER DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 134, 8 June 1910, Page 5

SIR WM. BUTLER DEAD.

(Received 5.30 a.ni.) LONDON, June 7. The death is announced at Tipperary of Sir Wm. Francis Butler. Death was due to heart failure. Sir Win. Butler, who was 72 years of age, had a distinguished career. He entered tlie army at the age of 20, and after four years' service in the East was engaged in Canada during the Fenian Raid and Red River expeditions. He later served with distinction in Ashanti, in : Natal, during the Zulu war in the j Egyptian campaign, the Nile expedition, and the Soudan expedition, where he was < promoted to the rank of general. After commanding several Home districts, he I was appointed to the command of the Cape, where he was stationed at the fime of the outbreak of the Boer war, but was recalled for insisting that the Boers had made extensive preparations for an extensive campaign, and that the British preparations and the number of men at his command were entirely inadequate. How true his summing up of the situation was the history of the next ' three years records.