OBITUARY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 879, 4 January 1889, Page 26

OBITUARY.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, (per press association.) St. Petersburg, December 26. Obituary—General Loris Melikoff;: [Loris Melikoff was a Russian general of Armenian descent, and a son of a merohan j at Moscow, Ho was born in 1824. aad received his eduoation at the Lazareff Institute in that oity. He spoke the Russian, Armenian, Tartar, Persian and French lancuages. At an early age he began his military career, joining the Hussars at St Petersburg. At the time of the Crimean War he had attained to the rank of colonel and he commanded a light oavalry regiment. He was present at the capture of Kars, and was appointed commandant of that town with the rank of general. He also took part in the military operations in the Caucasus, and after the peace he was sent as Governor to Viadi-Kavkas in Circassia in 1860. Some years afterward he obtained an unlimited leave of absence on account of the state of his health. He visited France, and resided for some time at Paris, and went next to Germany, and was staying at Wiesbaden when the declaration of war by Russia aaainßt Turkey recalled him to active service. He was appointed Adjutant-General to the Grand Duke Michael, the Imperial Lieutenant Commanding-in-chief the army of the Caucasus. It was in fact General Loris Melikoff who directed all the military operations in a country with which no one was more intimately acquainted than himself To him in particular was due the capture of Ajrdshan by the Russian troops on May 17th, *877, and the subsequent capture of Kars. On March 3rd, 1880, he was shot at by a man named Malaazyetsky, but he fortunately escaped without injury.] London, December 28, General Morant, who took an active part in the war against the Natives in the early days of New Zealand.