NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4011, 18 August 1915, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES.

(Continued from previous page.) Mr. 11. . Cole, headmaster of the Mangapapa School, and Mrs. W. McCullough, of Makauri, received! word yesterday from, the Minister of Defence that their brother, Sergeant Charles Henry Cole, of the Wellmgton Battalion, had boen killed in action at the Dardanelles on July 30. The, Minister conveyed his sympathy to the relatives in the loss they and New Zealand have suffered, and messages of sympathy have also been received from his Excellency the Governor on his own behalf and on behalf of the King. Sergeant Colo was one-of the Gisborne members of the Main Expeditionary Force. Ho went to camp as a private, rose rank of a lancecorporal, and since then hadi been promoted to be sergeant, which rank he has held for about three, months. He was-a well-known and popular footballer, being captain of the United team in which they Avon the championship. He was a prominent halfback and five-eighths, and was included in several representative teams. He bad been in Gisborne about three years, being in the employ of his bro-ther-in-law, Mr. W. McCullough, of Ma-lcauri, when bo enlisted. His mother, two other sisters, and _ three other brothers reside in Wellington. Sergeant Cole served! in the Wellington Nurmis for fiye years before com-

ing to Gisborne. He rvas very popular with, all avlio knew liim, and ivas .just of the temperament to take him where the bullets were Ilyin<r thickest. Private H. M. Fodder, whose name ■appears among this morning’s list of wounded 1 , is the second son of Mrs. IJ. Foil dor, of Rungi Street, Gisborne. He is suffering from He left Gisborne with the Third Reinforcement. Private Feilder was a carp: liter, and was horn and educated in Gisborne.

AT THE GALL OF GAVOUR.

Italy is a name that has always stirred the pulses of .. even cold-blooded British statesmen. Lord Palmerston would have loved her as an ally. On the death of Count Cavour on Gth June, 1861, Lord Palmerston, in the House of Commons, made a speech in which lie described Cavour’s memory as associated Avit-h one of the most extraordinary'and romantic tales in the history of the world. “Under bis influence,” he said, “we have seen a people who wore supposed to have become torpid in the enjoyment of luxury, to have been enervated in the pursuit of pleasure, and to have bad no knowledge or feeling in politics except Avbat may bo derived from the traditions of their history and the jealousies of rival States —we have seen that people under his guidance and at liis call rising from the slumber ages, breaking the -spell Avitli which thev had so long been bound, and displaying on just occasions the courage of' heroes, the sagacity of statesman, the wisdom of philosophers and obtaining for themselves that unity of existence which for centuries had been denied thorn.”