COLONEL CAVAGNARI.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 886, 10 September 1879, Page 2

COLONEL CAVAGNARI.

Colonel Cavagnabi, whose death is mentioned m otir English cable news of this evening, was our political- agent at the Court of Yakoob Khan, and whose services were rewarded with the Knighthood of the Bath, and of foreign extraction. The name of " Pierre Louis Napolerm Oavagnari" is accounted for by his parentage, his father having been a Genoese who came to settle m London, from the north of Italy, after the overthrow of the French Empire ; but he is an Englishmen by birth and education. He was at the Charterhouse school m his boyhood, but entered the military service of the East India Company m April, 1858. He was then posted to the Ist European Bengal Fusiliers, Bery.ed with that Corps during the Onde campaign, and received the Indian Mutiny medal. He. joined the Bengal Staff Corps, and was appointed an assistant commissioner m the Pnnjaub-in July, 1861. He has served on the North-western frontier uninterruptedly since April, 1862, principally as Deputy-commissioner of Kohat, of which important district he had charge for nearly twelve years. For his services on the frontier, and especially those m connection with the surprise and capture of the Bozoti. : .village of Gara m February, 1869, he. was recommended by Lord Mayo for a Companionship m the, order of the Star of India, which decoration was ' conferred on' him on January 1,^1877. Colonel Cava#nari served as political officer, with General Ross's force during, the Jpwaki campaign, and also m the same capacity during the Sapri, Skakote, and Utmankliel expeditions during tile spring of 1877. He was last year appointed Second member of Sir Neville Chamberlain's mission. . . .. /