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Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 957, 14 November 1918, Page 11

Mr. John Hutcheson has anticipated sis in the suggestion .that Mr. R. A.

Thanks to the prompt action taken by the Railway Department very effec-

Loughnan is the fittest person for the officer of "War Historian for New Zealand. His articles ;ih the "Times" carrying on ."The Progress. of the. .War" every day since the war . started "are his best testimonial. In the darkest days when the pessimists were yelling their lamentations from the .house-tops he., preached the Gospel of Cheerful Courage and Ultimate Victory as also did the Free Lance. And no man' in New Zealand is more deeply ..read in the wars of the past or owns d more patriotic heart than Robert A. Lougjinan.

The ex-Kaiser's Sons, Daughter, Daughters- and Son-in-law,. 1. Grown Pfinee Wilhelm, born 1882. 2. Prince Eitel Friedrich, born 1883. 3. Prince Adalbert, born 1884. 4. Prince August Wilhelm, born 1887. 5. Prince Oskar, born 1888, 6. Prince Joachim, born 1890 7. Princess Viktoria Luise, born 1892. 8. Crown Princess, Duchesß Cecilia of Mecklenberg. 9. Princess Eitel, Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg (five years older than her husband). 10. Princess August Wilhelm (formerly Princess Alexandra of Sohleswig-flolstein). 11. Duke of Brunswick, husband of the Kaiser's daughter. ; , ■

ti.ve measures to cope with and stay"; the , influenzae epidemic .are being pursued , daily in. every railway Station and • depot throughout New Zealand. All premises'arid every train are being disinfected daily, and a large number of sprayers are being turned out of the railway , workshops ~,at Petone. The. Railway Department' did not wait for any other Department to show the way but took the initiative itself at an early stage,... of . the. visitation, and by this promptitiide lias ho : doubt protected the travelling public arid its own servants most effectually. The men who are making tho sprayers at Petone have cheerfully forfeited their right to participate in tlie Peace rejoicings,

realising that the work they had in hand, was of the; utmost importance to the-;public health. *. * •» Welliii : gton }ias just lost a young man of brilliant parts in Major "Jim" Richmond, son of Mr. Maurice Richmond (now of Christchurch). Major J. M. Richmond, who had won the distinctions of D.5.0., and M.G.. while serving with • the Royal New Zealand Artillery, :wds. killed iby 'oni October 27. He' was ; right)through the Galli.poli campaign and in August last resigned tjie position • of Brigade-Major of the Divisional Artillery tQ command " a battery,, and on the day ftfir'his death lie had just taken over command of a Brigade of Field Artillery. His commanding officer writes: "X considered Major Richmond one of the most brilliant young officers I have known." Be 4 fore the war fhe- was /rising; -rapidly >ait - the-Bar. Hei wa«-[engaged to. be married after tlie war to His second, coixsin, Miss Be<tty ■ Blake, visited .Weilington from her home in. England some six 1 years ago, and made many friends here. " \ _, c c:J tv t yv-t-y." ;'v-o * "**' » "'*• • Death has been busy of late and many, valuable lives liave been cut down by- the . dread . Reaper; • Ghristchurch has lost in Mr. H. W. Bishop, the Senior S.M. ■ of the Dominion, , a' man who always - had the courage of his convictions' and worthily , upheld his high office. Wanganui mourns a young medico ;of - high- promise ■ perscal ' °£ Dr. Allan. Leslie Christie, who hais fallen a, victim; i-n- camp.-to. thevinfluenza epidemic. He "went to Edinburgh at the beginning 'of ;1914r certain, diseases, and when war broke - out 'he Was : ' bne; of ?. th'&' • enlist for war service. It. is, therefore, very, -sad -he 'should have.: >pa.Sscd ; away just a few hours before the end of the - war was : in sight.=• • V