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Otago Witness, Issue 2412, 24 May 1900, Page 26

8.-P. comae's honestly by his wonderfuL qualities. There^is a dash of Nelsori's >bloo,d in his veins, and two of his immediate progenitors — Bisi father and his' maternal grandfather — handed on to hinj the mind of a thinker and the , h|arVof a fighting mgn, The father of Colonel Baden.-Powes was, from 1827 to 1860, th9.vy«-£r of his death, Savilian Professoivof -Geometry at Oxford. Professor . Bad,en-Powell was twice married ; his "ili'st wife was' Charlotte Pope, who 1 - died irr 1844, and his second wife was Henrietta Grace Smyth, daughter of 'Admiral William Henry Smyth. By his > first wife 'he had three -daughters and a son,, B.aden Henry Powell, Judge of the Chief Court of Lahore, and a waiter. of Indian L%.w and Tenure. By his" ''second wife, the present Mrs Baden-Powell, he had five sons and. 'One .daughter. Admiral ."William Henry Smytlyour hero's maternal grandfather, was son of J. B. Palmer Smyth, vr)io.- claimed descent from Captain John Smith, Vf Virginia (1580-1631), and owned large estates in N.ew Jersey, whicli'as a Royalist he lost wh'eii the North American Colonies obtained their independence. Admiral Smyth serv.eS in the Cornwallis , in. 1805, in the Powerful up to' 1809, in the Rodney in x 1811. Admiral Smyth married at • , Messina, in 1815, Annarella, daughter of Mr T. Waringion, of Naples, and among Weir sons are Sir Warington Wilkifiibn -Smyth, a famousjjeologist and mineralogist, the late Mr C. Piazzi Smyth, for many years Astronomer Royal for - Scotland; and Sir Henry Augustus Smyth, -3LC.M.G-. One of 'his daughters, Georgiana Rosetta, married the late : S,ii\W. -H. Flower, X.C.8.,, Director of the Natural History Museum;- and another is, as already stated, the mo-thejr-'''of the^JSero of Mafeking. ■ , i , v

—W. A. Latham, photo. , , OUR BOYS AT THE FRONT. Two groups of the New Zealand Hotchkiss Battery with their gun, which is to be presented to the colony at the termination of the Transvaal War. The gun is an automatic one with a capacity of 680 rounds per minute. Sketch number 1 shows the gun in an upright position. In the second illustration five gunners are shown. . The gun is in what is termed the laying down position, and is just about to be fired by Gunner Hodge, who is a son of Captain Charles Hodge, of Port Chalmers.