THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1926.
NEW COMMODORE.
ARRIVAL OF CAPT. J. L
PEARSON, C.M.G.
&M.G..
Captain John L. Pearson, IN, the new Commodore in charge of the naval establishment in Hongkong, arrived this morning from Home by the P. and O. liner Malwu, being accompanied by his wife. He was met on arrival by Rear Admiral A. J. B. Stirling, whom he succeeds and who is leav- ing for Home with Mrs. and Miss Stirling to-morrow. Captain Bear- son takes over his duties as from eight o'clock to-morrow morning. With him there also arrived his Secretary, Pay Lieutenant. A. T. Thompson,
CAFT. PEARSON'S CAREER,
Captain Pearson, who was born in 1879, is a son of the late Ad- miral Sir Hugo Lewis Pearson, K.C.B. For the last three years ho has been in command of the aircraft carrier Furious, with the Atlantic Fleet,
Twenty years ago, as a lieuten- ant, Captain,, Pearson received the bronze medal, of the Royal Humane Society for rescuing a.
Beuman
who was thrown into the sea by the capsizing of a target. In the war he was commander of the Leviathan and the Benbow, 'and from January, 1918, Chief of Staff to Rear-Admiral T. W. Kemp" ip North, Russia. Ho attained his rank as Captain on December 31st, 1917. His wife is a daughter of Colonel Cecil Beadon, of the Indian Army, thoir, marriage, tak-` | ing place in 1912.
REAR ADMIRAL STIRLING.
Yongkong will say good-bye to
Rear Admiral A. J. B. Stirling,
C. B., with much regret, for during
KEEPING AN EYE ON MARS.
Observations were recently made of the planet Mars at Greenwich Observatory by the aid of this remarkable and huge telescope. In our picture the telescope is seen being. adjusted.
RUBBER PRICES.
his stay here he has won much po DIVIDENDS AND QUOTATIONS,
pularity in social and Service cir cles. He has had a lengthý und
Messrs. Carroll Bros. have been ad- honourable career in the Navy vised by Singapore that rubber is which he joined in 1889, and won quoted at 63 cents per lb. The fol- high honour in the Battle of Jut-lowing dividen's have been declared:-
land, when, as commander of the 12th Destroyer Flotilla, he deliver- ed a most successful attack on the German Battle Fleet. For this and other services during the war he received the C. B. decoration,
the French Legion of Honour and the Russian Order of St. Anne.
E
Rear Admiral Stirling.
He arrived in Hongkong 'ns Comi- modore on December 11th, 1924, and will therefore leave on the second anniversary of his arrival here. It was, on August 9th this year that he was raised to the rank of Rear Admiral.
Mrs. and Miss Stirling have also figured prominently in the social life of the Colony during their stay here and will be greatly missed. Of late, Mrs. Stirling has been in indifferent health, 'and her many friends will wish her a speedy re- "covery in the Old Country,
BRITISH SUGAR BEET,
A BIG FACTORY SCHEME ABANDONED.
30% to dute,
Connemaras-10% interim, making Haylors.
10% Interim, making 30% to date.
Kamasans-16% interim, making 45% to date,
Sungei Bags.7% interim: Tapals. 10% interim, making 30% to dite.
Alor Gajahs-30% final, making
60% for the year.
Malaka Pindas.--104% fihal, making 271% for the year.
The latest quotations are as follows: Allenbys
Alor Gajah
Amalgamated Malays
Ayer Moleks
Aver Panax
Balgownies
Bussetts..
Jerams
Jinths
2.65
2.00
$ 2.85
3.00
4.60.
13:00
1.35
Brogas
1..15
Bukit Jelotongs
105
Bukit Katila
110 1.10
Changkat Serdangs (c.`d.) 949
Glenenes
Comemaris
Indragiris
2.85 10.40 1.76
Kedahs медаля
4.10
9.10
Kuma
Silinis
985
Lamas
4.00
1.00
Malaka Pindas
2.40.
Malakoffs
4.85
Mandai Tekongs
Mayfields
Mentakabs
Pajams
Now Serendahs
4.00
3.85
1.25
3.00
-270
4.15
33.50
16.26
1.30
Tunggars Sandycrofts Sendais
Buguns
Tapaha Tambalaks Teluk Annons United Malaccas Ulan Simpana
ITALO-GERMAN TREATY.
CAUSE NO SURPRISE..
2.55 4.50..
Geneva, Dec. D.
No surprise is expressed here'
DOCTOR'S SECRET, OF HAPPINESS.
WORK ANDY LOVA THE WAY-
TO HEALTH.
Dame Mary Scharlieb, the fame ous woman doctor, who is Bl. got up from a bed of sickness last month to lezture at the Institute of Hygiene.
"Selatica," she said briskly when the chairman mentioned this, "but I don't know that that deser- ves to be called 'a bed of sick- ness,"
"Selfishness and a desire to at-, tract attention were at the root of many nervous complaints," she declared, adding..
"I have been watching this basj. ness as a woman doctor for 50 years.".
Doctors knew only too well the more or loss charming and lovable woman who was constantly allud jing to "my delicate nerves," and who lost no opportunity of assert- ing the fact that, in spite of all this sensitiveness and delicacy. she was absolutely unselfish, hard working, and long enduring.
Mercifully this type of person was much less frequent now than in the days of Jane Austen und Charlotte Yonge. During the fate ful four years of the
war; she (Dame Mary) had only one “really old-fashioned highly-strung, dan sel' among her patients.
"The reaction at the end of the war resulted in a recrudescence f. mid-Victorian nerves, Things
were not so bad as they were 40 or 60 years ago, but there was a dis- tinet increase of the Clare de Vere spirit.
Work--the work that came to at the reports of the imminence our hands, including housework- of the signature of an Italo-Ger gave the moans whereby we might and rise above "our poor and nervous man Treaty of Arbitration Friendship, as it has been known selves" to something fine and for some time that negotiations heroic. But it was necessary to
have interest in the work. had been pending. London, Dec. 9.
The Treaty is in the spirit of the one thing to gild drudgery and The big sugar, refiners, Messrs. Tate and Lyle, have decided to principles of the League and simi- make it real work was love.
Answering lar to the treaties with Spain, abandon the project of building a sugar boet factory in Yorkshire Switzerland and other countries. Mary said:
on account of the experience gain-
ed through working" the existing factory in Suffolk.
Reater.
The
questions Dame
Think suffelently of any part of [your body and you will have pain. there. Forget it, and get on with
Sir Ernest Lyle, at the annual ARMS MANUFACTURE. your work.
meeting of the firm, expressed the British sugar conviction that best factory had no hope to exist, without a subsidy, and the pros- pect of deerunsing and ultimately ending the subsidy did not warrant the large outlay of capital involved
AIM TO SUPERVISE PRIVATE MAKERS.
Geneva, Dec. 9. The League of Nations' Council
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The Tuilor and Cutter deals with painful candour in its current issue with the errors of dress to be noted in the visitors and home delegates to the Imperial Con- The above statement was made ference. Mr. Baldwin is rebuked recently by Mr. W. Roughton, for his thoughtlessness in presid prominent member of the Ancient ing over the conferences in a loun-- Society of College Youths, Eng-ge suit, whereas he would never land's oldest bell-ringing frater dream of wearing anything but ity, who are experimenting with formal morning dress.at Ascot or the object of recording London's Harrow Speech Day, for example. famosa bells on the gramophon. By contrast the Canadian Premier "There is one spot where chimes and Mr. Cosgrave are praised for can be heard perfectly," added Air the correctness of their attire, Roughton. "St. Paul's belis spurd best from Snow Hill, but 'Big Ben' is terrible anywhere.
Mr. Bruce, the Australian Pre- mier, unfortunately just missed equal praise. Says the Journal:-. Mr. Bruce, the Australian Pre "Mr. Roughton is rather behind the times in his discovery," said mier, was well, although informal- an official of Messrs. E. Dent and ly, dressed, but there was one sar- Co., Ltd., who made and created torial note which requires com- the famous clock, recently to ament. In his kit was "a pair of Daily Chronicle representative spats. And why did Mr. Bruce The bell of Big Ben' was cracked wear spats? We are assured that within a few days of its being put this is not an Australian fashion. up at Westminster 66 years ago. The "diggers" do not thus protect
embellish "Speaking from memory, the and
their ankles. crack is under a foot in length, and Neither are they worn by smartly is certainly under a quarter of a dressed men in London. Spats arc inch wide. The width of the pri-essentially a dandy article of rinal crack was purposely increas-attire, but they belong to the vogue, ed slightly so as to improve the of yesteryear. In this respect Mr. vibration.
Bruce occupied a position of splen "You might be able to put the did isolation, and may claim the tip of your little finger, in the distinction which always attaches crack, but not without pinchinto the unique. But if Mr. Bruce The crack has not extended or wishes to be in the forefront of fashion he must unbutton and widened since 1859.
unstrap those spats and cast them forth.
"A new "Big Ben' would cost several thousands of pounds, at the advantage gained would hardly be worth it.".
It is related that after a gardon- party at Buckingham Palace the shrubberies were snowed under with white spats discarded by Americans who, at the last moment, found out their mistake. They took their courage and their fest in their hands and flung The
away the offending garments. To Mr. Bruce we say, 'Go thus and do likewise.
Big Ben weighs about. 13 tons, and it has been stated that to re move it for recasting, the inside of the tower would have to be dis- mantled and cleared out. cost of this would probably more than the recasting.
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