PERSONAL.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14173, 15 July 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

,\\)y Agnes'B^u(^j : ;wlio;^. .East with:tho'' : Scottish | pital, and out"tp 'jSTovr .'".•'... Zealand on sriclc loßVCV^Tvn^yljack ; " '• London when the mail loft. '• . -v. '■-

; 'An ■engagement;.- is , u tweeh Captain Pus., attached 8.A.1)'., son of-tlieviatc, / Mr John Williams and Mrs^WilliamSj'bf ; '' Froswylfa, Carnarvon, and Edith,' eldest:' daughter ,of the;late Mr. and,.Mrs-i'. P. Ormorqd, of, Fern Bank, Castlotoh,-,. Lanes, formerly of Chrlstchureh, ;XoTf' Zealand. :' . : • ■:'.- . ; :^..V.- ; ''"- : \ '■■"'. ■•'•'. '.'■'•-.' ",''■•'•'•..' V-f : * ''''• ,, V;^: J .-^ ; ■ Sir Douglas Haig's infant sori;is ]hc- ■: .■'..-<• ginning'life: well sponsored. 'Amdng., 'his godfathers are: the' King, and Sir- \ i Eric Goddcs, and .his, include:.'/.- . . Qricen Alexandra.'' Tlio bbptisjh^ircerjS; s; j. ; ;;j/$ >mony was performed •'''''. ' Bov. %Toim.k. Sims) principal chaplain ■■ to.the British Army in>France^■ Th'b■ ' boy was given the ■ namo' of. George Alexander Eugene .Douglas. Tho/pMS;;,- • : crits included a gold chfistcning «up • ; from f.ho Kirlff fintl.QiiPon Alexandra. ; . : ;. ...•..'••' .;■', "iJ.-.■.!■■'■. V ••" : is''*' '■■:<■ : - •' '■■'•V:- Y- ; - ■'■;■% y>. : Mr.0.0. Jlawlins died-at/hißvilbni^.? :, . : at, fliverton oii Wednosday Oyeningrlasts. after a, ; few days' illness. Mr Bawling/ ■;;'.,.. who/was.a mining engineer by/profoj;; j£^ 'Siori;: was ■:. born at : Liv^ptto^in^B|B;| : ||;f Ho; landed'at LytteltonV^ Mermaid in 1875, and joined-ttie^b-; ; : ' . ( ,; defic 'survey' 1 party on the'• West'.Cbast.'':He was ( afterwards engineer and- general manager of the Island Blockj.Gqld.,. ; Mining' Company.' tHe .represented Tua- -- : poka in Parliament in 1896-99.;;: \ >fe, .On Saturdayword was:., the death of Private VThpTiias^George :.; Fitzsimmons, of Ardgowan,\who /Aire- s ; cumbed to an operation at thVsune'djto/; Hospital on SatuVdny 1 asfc.. The liite , . Private six years pf age/left the DbmiiuonywM..' \ the Thirteenth; ttcinforcemerit,: oniMay.-; ■ 27,' 1910, ami saw service'■■ in , ; where ho received a ;. . thchip, last. •"' Previous to being lie was twice operated upon f6,r:,thc?'ex- ( traction: d^osbrapnel,..but ; ' [ cess. His'-veimTins' Vu*e hrought,.. tq Oaniarn,:fofsintemeptj vtoicjuitijl '< : take place to-morrow.! jwlth Military .. honours.; '■ •. . ,'->' /,/.;,• ,'^.,->iv.:V , \ Brigadier-General 'AndroW/ who ■is;!'at-..'' v . present W Christciiur'eh on leave 'front : , . Mesopotamia-knew General'Towhshend;' very well, arid stated'that'lie was'proli-; ably one of the greatest student's -of.'.''. war in the Bnitiah Army^spehdirig-two' or tfiree hours daily in porlfg ovc|maw.' r -,'. and studying[the' campaigns of'the'paat'.'' : ." -"'■' ',He' expressed' the opinion that -tie was •_';'. pfobably oneoosf s the /greatest 'soMiers'' I : m had, arid that his capture; was'a/' ; pevere loss to us. But for'it.he woiild' ' probably havo been [ given a ,hig| s -corn-. . ■ ,-/ \ mand on the Weston/ 1 lie was able to gather from tions with Armenians and';Turksy ; h'e',' jaid, Ci onevfl I .TownsKcnd and : liiH|ellqw-. \ ",prisoners of.wrfr'in Turkey treated as-well as could;^o.oxpecteW ; ].A griuner of tho 'Notts 'BatteryV/^ho;.' !;•' \ ', iiad. boon taken ■!isifprison eiimp near ~:,' iary .last, disguised; 'as \an J; Crossed the desert .between Ni3ibi* : ftnd- : 7 ,/'. ! ,tho' Euphrates,, a distance/of '■';;•: : 'and;reported' at"":General-' 'headquarters;in Pen^uaryj'Stflt'e^^tM.f-'.. the British prisoners werej •;.;•' ' : treated by. tho Turks.' Tlio partyjln ■ 'vwhlfth : ho belonged liatl .lio.ori |.inpioyefl : . : for some months in: railway'co&iic-; itiqn on tho Aleppp-Nisibin railw|yi'.aiid ; were well fed clothed."' •