OBITUARY.
LORD CHARLES SCOTT.
By Telegraph.Press Association.- Copyright London, August 22. Lord Charles Scott, formerly Com-mander-in-Chief of the Australian station, who has been ailing for a long time, is dead.
. Lord Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, who had reached his 82nd year, entered the navy as a boy of 14 in 1853. He served in H.M.S. St. Jean d'Arc in the Russian war in the Baltic in 1854. He was in the Black Sea campaign in H.M.S. Raleigh in the following year, and in the China war two years later. He was in H.M.S. Pearl's naval brigade during the Indian Mutiny, and was mentioned in despatches. He commanded H.M.S. Icarus daring the troubles in . Formosa in 1868-71, was commander-in-chief on the Australian station from 1889 to 1892, and at Plymouth from 1899 to 1902. ■
SIR YELVERTON GORING. v London, August 22. The death of Sir Yelverton Goring is announced.
Sir Henry Yelverton Goring, Bart., who was 70 years of age, came to New Zealand as a young man with his father, the late Sir Foster Goring, who was private secretary to Sir George Grey during the latter's Governorship. He also travelled in Australia, Canada, and India. One of his brothers is Colonel Foster Yelverton Goring, of Hastings. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14767, 24 August 1911, Page 5
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