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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 656, 5 November 1909, Page 7

English files to hand . state, .that. General Booth's health continues to show a marked im--3 provement, although: it is. still giving a gbod 1 deal of anxiety. He suffers acuta pain at times, and is.unabla to secure oven tho small e amount of floopwhich has : boon his portion . daring recont years. Ha has. been able to taltc . Bhort walks in the neighbourhood of liis ; home i, at Hadloy Wood, and, -as is nsual with him, has occupied-his hours of enforced "idleness" ! with schemes for tho 'bettering of the conditions.of the poor and destitute; ' In this connection he has formulated plans for, the coin-. ; ing winter. • •" ; Tho late CapWn J. fi. Chapplo, BiN., whs . died at his residence, s' Road, Lower Hutt, ; on Tiiesday, aged 76"years, was tho son V of a naval officer, and Metered; the Navy at . the age of 1(H years. ,He was specially men- ;• tionod in dispatolics for coolness;. and skill in navigating his ship, H.M.S; Tartar, under fire, i at tho attack on thq batteries.'ih- the.- Str'Vtits '' of Siioonoseld, Japan,' on' September 4, 1864, l". He leaves three daughters and- ono son. Tho ' latter is now. Paymaster ■ in Chief of H.M. yacht Victoria and Albert, and one ' of. his I grandsons has just entered Osborne College as 'I a cadet. One of his daughters;married Mr. f. Graham Harvey, of Lower nutt. . a.u i./.". '■i'."