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THE CHÍNA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 13, 1930.
LORD NELSON BY UNKNOWN HAND
What is believed to be a hitherto unrecognised portrait of Lord Nelson has been discovered by an amateur of archaeology, Mr. Leslie Pocock, of Elstree, Herts, a legal assistant in the Solicitors' Office of the Board of Cus- tomis and Excise.
The portrait was purchased 10 years. ago by Mr. Pocock for £3 3s in a sec- ondhand shop near Holborn.
"It was then in an old, though not contemporary, gilt frame, which broke three or four weeks ago," Mr. Pocock said. "While trying to mend the frame I removed the canvas from a board on which it had been tacked, and on the back of the canvas I found two In- scriptions."
The first incription. said Mr. Po- cock, read as follows:
To the Rev. Richard ——, the Vicar of Stoke Poges, from the Rev. Nelson: My son, Horatio, aged 17 years.
The vicar's name, added Mr. Po- cock, was indecipherable. The second inscription read: This portrait of Lord Nelson was given to my Mother by the vicàr, and was cut out of the frame by me, as I do not believe in Bloodshed and Murder and so will not allow this to hang on the walls of Stoke House. This second Inscription, adds. Mr. Pocock, is signed "Granville Penn."
LINK WITH QUAKERS
Mr. Pocock has ascertained that there was a vicar of Stoke Poges in 1794 named Richard Kilshaw, and he believes that this is the man to whom the portrait was given by Lord Nel- son's father. From the local records he has also found that Granville Penn, a member at the famous Quaker fami- ly, lived at the Manor House at Stoke Poges until it was burnt down in 1834.
"There is no doubt about the age of the portrait, or that the writing on the back is of the same period," Mr. Pocock said. "It is of no great artistic merit, and was probably painted by a wandering artist.
"I doubt that anyone looking at the portrait casually would recognise Nel- son, but knowing the subject one can recognise the thin face and rather peaked nose. In fact, there is a dis- tinctly traceable resemblance. The por- trait shows Nelson as a young man, though he looks, as everyone did in those days, considerably more than his years."
The painting, which is in oils, shows traces of having been cut from a frame, and bears no artist's name.
LOCAL SHARES
Following is the list of changes and enquiries in local share quotations to-
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INSURANCES
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H.K. Fire Ins. $165 sa.
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MINING
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Star Ferries $60 b., $59 sa. Yaumati Ferries $22 b.
China Lights (Old) $7.60 b., $7.85
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Telephones (Old) $21 b., $211⁄2 sa. INDUSTRIALS
Cements $13 b. H.K. Ropes $3% b.
STORES, &C. Dairy Farms (Old) $201⁄2 b. Dairy Farms (New). $19 b. Watsons $8.30 b.
MANILA SHARES Antamoks Ps. 16% sa. Atoks Ps. 17 sa. Batong Buhay Ps. .011 b. Benguet Consol. Ps. 9.30 sa. Big Wedge Ps. .18 sa. Coco Grove Ps. .15 b. Consol. Mines Ps. .0045 sa. Demonstrations "Ps. .07 b. I.X.L. Ps. .35 sa. Ipo Gold Ps. .11 b. Itogons Ps. .20% sa. Mambulao Ps. .05 b. Masbates Ps. .071⁄2 sa. Mind. Mother Lode Ps. .004 sa. Mine Operation: Ps. 11.b. Paracale Gumaus Ps. .14 sa. San Mauricio Ps. .75 sa.. Surigao Consol, Ps. .18 b. Suyoc Consol. Ps. .11- sar Syndicate Inv. Ps. .02" b. United Paracales Ps. 27 sa.
DROWNED BOY PUT IN
IRON LUNG
a vain
For the second time in eight days Nelson was born in 1758, and at the doctors at the Royal Sussex County age of 17 was a midshipman. There Hospital at Brighton, made are in existence not more than six au-effort to-night to restore the life of a thenticated portraits of Nelson painted drowned bather by encasing the body
in an iron lung.
from life.
Mr. Pocock is sending the protrait to the National Maritime Museum for scrutiny by experts.
While in the sea near the Palace Pier, eight-year-old William Higgins, of Farm Way, Dagenham, Essex, “got into difficulties. His brother George, aged six, fatched help and two men, Mr. David Long, a medical student,
FAMOUS DRUG MAY BE of Hazel Glen, Horley, and Mr. Her-
MADE "POISON"
The drug M and B 693 has been dis- cussed at a conference of the South African Medical Association, which has decided to ask the Government to place it and similar preparations on the poison list.
bert Colbourne, a beach lifeguard, of Hartington-crescent, Brighton, brought the boy ashore.
After police and first-aid men had for an hour he tried to revive him
He appeared to show signs of life. was hurried by ambulance to hospital and put in an iron lung. Three hours later the efforts were abandoned.
The boy was on holiday with his mother and brother at Brighton, Hla father is in South Africa.
two hours.":
According to a Reuter message from Johannesburg people have been buy
Doctors at the hospital tried a ing and using it indiscriminately.
A Medical Correspondent writes: "Msimilar experiment on a young man
свед whose body had been in the for and B. 693, one of the later modifica- tions of the sulphanilamiple group, is a proprietary drug, and represents one of the most valuable advances in modern medicine. It is enormously valuable in the treatment of pneu- monia and other, "forms of acute bacterial infection,
"It can at present be bought in this country without a doctor's prescrip- tion. But it is a very powerful drug and it is advisable that it should, in etreet, be taken only under, doctor's orders and under medical supervision. It has boon ama drb successful in many, čases. E
LOCAL DOLLAR
The demand rate on the Hong Kong dollar to-day was 1/2-18/18
Spot allver was quoted at 20-7/8 and forward at 20-7/8;;;*.
The London on. Now rate was quoted at (Sellars) and 4,08 (Bu New York on London rate was
2—U.5.$4.091