OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1706, 25 March 1913, Page 5

OBITUARY.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR P. CAKBIXCI- '■ "■'TON.;-, By Telegrapli—Press Association—Copyright London, March 23. 'Major-General Sir Frederick.' Carringtoil, k.O.M.Cr., K.C.8., is dead, aged 69. . . The late Sir Frederick Carrington was '.. appointed major-general on the. siaff. in , South Africa in 1900, in, the Boer War. He had previously seen much service in that quftrter of tho. world from 1877 on- .••• wards,, when li& commanded ; the Light Hotse .in the Transkei Wa'iv ■ He later : commanded the Coluuial Forces against .• Sekukuni. in the-Transvaal, ; 1878-79; the Native Levies in the; Zulu ..Rebellion; the Colonial Forces in ; the Basuto War, 1881, : during which war he .was severely wound-, cd.- lie- was appointed Commandant ;of Beciuanaland yolicean 1893; Military Adviser to the; High Commissioner during the Jlatabele War of 1893.J G.O,C. forces In Rhodesian Rebellion; commanded the infantry, «t Gibraltar, 1895-99..; and was in ' command. .of ; the Belfast district,; 1899-1900, PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS. Tegucigalpha, Jlaich 23. The President, General Manuel. Bomila, Ja dead.

: Speaking in support of a resolution 1 de? manding equal treatment for all universii ties in. th,q. matter of Parliamentary' re- . presentation', Sir Alfred. Hopkinson, Vice- ' Chancellor of Manchester University, saUl in Cohyooati.on. that they were not going tosit. down'.tinder'- the suggestion that there. werQ clashes of umvorsities— the older- universi ties, plus London on the one haud (| and on the other hand 'those , places founded in the. barbarous region, of the north.