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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 13 July 1915, Page 5

rriw Old Head of Kiusale,;! off, which the, Lu'sitania was sunk,, hasbeerc : ■. scene of at least two "■'hostile In September, 1601,' a Spanish force of 3000 men. landed ,-tt iviiwsale,to co-operate in the ■"■'O'Neill' and was. brought to book by.the' English-fleet and army. Eighty-eight,years.,later ■. James 11. landed there m his futile attempt to recover his lost throne, arid* -from the same port he embarked in. July, 1690, after hi's crushing defeat/at the "Battle o£ ; the Boyne. ■ ':.;,' ■:,',,; ,/„...'...... Probably the largest foriunemade, out of the sale of patent -food -as,; the £4,294,000 odd left by the /late Mr.. Charles William- Post, .oj Washington, this huge sum was accumulated in 20 years, and from very small beginnings lie built up a "breakfast food" concern whose name is known all over tho world.. That his fortune .was,-quite exceptionalis shown by- the .fact that Mr .Frederick Bencer left £420.-807, and Mi\ Jobart; Carl Mellin £114,218, while Mr. Jamc-s ; Etuis, of cocoa, fame,..' was .worth som<>thine,- under, three-quarters, of.' a" niiluon when ho, died. Mr Post shot himself .'m. California a year ago, after a,lpiig ; battl6. with, ill-health, and. the extent of his wealth has only just become known. His career shows, that there; .'is. -Htery, much,.more, money in pate-iitfood? th«j.fif in patent.medicines. ....v^.^,,' A yonrig soldier was severely wounded. in the fighting somewhere in France. Ho', lost consciousness, and when ho regained it he was lying comfortably in.a bed-in-a ward of a large hospital. His first words .were. "Where am I?" Thejiurso told him that.he was in London ;that during the period of,his xmconsciousiiqss ho had been, transported across the".■ G?ap)i$ >; and that his wounds had been Ho asked.-the.name.iof 'the hospital, tho .number of the ward, thp day ; of.' tho week, and the- hour. The nurse, told him. "I. say, nurse, my dad's in the next ward now. You knowhe is the surgeon* there, and this is his visiting day." Ands *zo it was. The. father was in the. next. Avard performing his work, thinking.nil itho time that his son was in' Franco. ■tlo did not even know thai.tho..boy..was wounded, far less* that ho was ' being tended 'a few yards away.