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SERVICE IN A LONDON CHURCH FOR HENRY HUDSON.

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a

by the gift of a window to the church, the first of three which will record the life of that great 'Navi- gator.. And Mr. Sale's speech.on the subject should serve to remind London, of what she owes to this of and other remote, progenitora her proud position as the centre Hudson's of world commerce. fden, which ruled his life and or dained his death, was to discover a way to China and the Indies by the North Pole. It may seem vain illusion now; but we must re- in member that English sailors those days were shut out of both "Anno, 1607, April the nine the Baltic and the South Seas by On April 4, 418 convicts were embarked at Saint Martin de Ré teenth at Saint Ethelburgh it, the might of Spain and the Em- for Gulana and Devil's Island. The Bishop Gate-street, did commun!ptre; that both the sea and over- famous convict ship "La Marcate with the rest of the parishlon land routes to the Far East were tiniere" that received them has ers these persons, seamen, purpos: therefore closed to our Merchant often been described, with its holding to go to sea foure days after, Adventurer; and that this concep im for to discover a passage by thetion of a free road to the Indies, converted by iron bars into

these North Pole to Japan and China. by way of the North, was a hope wherein mense cages,

"First, Henry Hudson; mas which lived in their breasts from wretched man are kept during the

one generation to another. If So runs an entry, in the log of Hudson did not discover the way, Angeles.tong weeks of the voyage, as one ter....

newspaper puts it, "ike wild beasts and in disgusting promis John Pleyce, one of the company of he went far to establish that no its mariners who set out with Henry way existed, and negative know- Singapore, Cape Town & Ports cuity," more especially with

Saturday, 9th June,

system of pipes whereby in cases Hudson on his first great voyage ledge is sometimes as valuable as of revolt these

caged creatures of discovery in his ship the Half positive. There was besides those incidental explorations, which may be befled alive by steam from Moon. the boilers, and its punishment On April 18, the 321st anniver- helped both England and Holland calls wherein the victim, enclosed sary of Hudson's Communion, the to occupy and colonise the Ameri-

the Hudson's Bay, can coasts. in complete darkness and the 'suf-Governor of focating heat of the tropics, can Company unveiled a window given

Mistaken Nationality. neither stand nor sit nor crouch. by the Campany in honour of the

On this occasion the short navigator in the same church of The Dutch, indeed, were so much Identified with one of Hudsons stretch of tree-lined rond by which St. Ethelbargn the Virgin. the melancholy procession passed The dim little church-it is the voyages that some American his- from the prison gates to the tender smallest in London-now dwarfed torians fell into the fallacy of call-

lined by Senegalese black by the buildings of those "Wor- ing Hudson a Dutchman. troops, whose roughness in applying shipful Merchants" in whose ser- is no doubt, however, that he was Englishman, and very little the order to drive away journal-vice Hudson sailed, was filled by an iats, photographers, and kinema business men and representatives doubt that he was a Londoner, con- operators is complained of gener- of foreign lands when the Service nected by family and tradition with ally in the Paris newspapers. The of Dedication began. They were the Muscovy Company and the en- "Paris Midi's" correspondent, who was mishandled by a Senegalese crowded even to the steps of the terprise to which he devoted-and chance! where Hudson had knelt forfeited-his life. It was an ad- with soldier and even threatened

with his crew, narrates the Lon- venture, in a forty-ton boat, with black

la crew of ten men and a boy, as the bayonet, writes of his

don "Morning Post."

hazardous as flying the Atlantic assailant as a "gavage" and as an

to-day: it needed as much courage "animal" Imagine such epithets being used by a German journalist When the first hymn of thanks and more endurance, and although. in the Rhineland, where

presum-giving had been sung and a special the bread east on these icy and) ably these uniformed negroes are fection given, Mr. C. V. Sate, the stormy waters returned. It was not!

Hudson, but to the following not sweeter mannered

Governor of the Company, drew to

of his countrymen. French soil.

aside the curtains before, the win- generations

We owe to those great Eliza- The kinema operator of a great dow.

"......in honour of Henry Hud- bethans and their successors. ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-Via Singapore company had his film torn

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Tuesday, Eth June.

struggle managed to substitute a son, the Navigator," he declared, heritage in North America-if wo Canada, and are put on a RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES--Via Saigon, Singapore, blank film for that on which he had "and of his courage, fortitude, and may still call it our heritage, when succeeded in recording the proces untimely death, we dedicate this Englishmen are denied free entry sion, writes

Hudson's sort of "Maconochie ration" in the the "Manchester window, on behalf of the Governor into

Enland trading into Guardian's Paris correspondent to

Bay, and entrust it to the care and land which their fathers his paper.

custody of the Rector and church-lished.

Canada. wardens of this ancient church."

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In an interview with the Paris "Midi's" corespondent the captain

Cast Away.

There

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We recently gave an account of In an address before the dedica- tion the Governor told as much of the difficulties which are set in the

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tain uneasiness over the security known. He told of his four re- the Canadian authorities. We have of the ship, despite the enges andnowned voyages, of his life-long heard so many complaints of the steampipes. Every day, by passage and finally of his casting system, that we incline to think the regulation, he has to allow one-away in an open shallop with eight elaborate machinery of medical ex- so forth covers companions, a few tools, and a amination and

some political design against Bri- cages. to emerge on deck for an little food, by a mutinous crew. hour while the other half clear up

"In the circumstances we think tish emigrants. Certain it is that, the traces of their "disgusting

of him not in failure, nor as one where there might be a great flow Canada, "We have only promiscuity." eight warders to superintend those who died in a vain cause," he add- of British settlers into

ed: "bat as the bearer of an im- there is a mere trickie-a atate of parades of some 300 convicts at a

have perishable name whereof are wit-affairs by which Canada loses at time. For a long time we

the representatives in least as much as this country. If been demanding machine-guns, but nesses our request has not been granted. Shanghai of the English Govern- the Dominion were wise in its own It was only at the last moment that ment, to which Henry Hudson owed interest, it would allow as free a London they allowed us to have revolvers." allegiance, the representatives of movement between Great Britain

the great nations of France, the and Canada as between

or Quebec "Have you ever had a case of re- United States and of Canada, of and Edinburgh, volt?" the captain was asked.

Denmark, the Netherlands, and Montreal. For consider the risks "No, but I have had sometimes

of Newfoundland, all of whom which Canada runs and the losses to threaten supreme measures.

way or another she suffers by the lack not merely Should the cells and the irons not are

United States, suffice to master them it would be linked in history with the four of agricultural but of industrial in my power to smother them in voyages I have described as well population. The

as representative members of the with 115 millions or ao of popula- ton minutes with a jet of steam."

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on that and pressing their claim upon her Another

don engaged in carrying that these departing convicts are traffic and intercourse

overseas, water, which she herself

in one

all animated with the same hope, which it was the ambition of use for lack of people, that of eventual escape. For any Henry Hudson to promote."

other hope there is no room.

"La Martiniore" weighed anchor

for Algiers, where she will embark

Canada's Greetings.

Dr. Geikie-Cobb, the rector. read

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an almost equal contingent of

of Minister Prime North African convicts bound for a cablegram from Mr. Mackenzie that same port across the Atlantic King, the

Canadu, in which the latter said: from which few return.

For years I send greetings on behalf of the press and Parliament have been talking of the abolition of this people of Canada who desire

but it join with the people of Great Bri- Guiana penal settlement,

tain and the United States still continues.

paying tribute to the great

holds an plorer whose name hosoured place in the history of this Dominion."

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Dr. Gelkie-Cobb explained that the window was one of a set of three which it was hoped to install

In the church. It is expected that the remaining two will be provid- ed by the citizens of the United States and of Canada.

The window. presented by the Hudson's Bay Company depicts Hudson standing beside the Half Moon reading his sailing orders before embarking. Below is a re- Communion presentation of the Bervice in St. Ethelburga's Church, with the names of the Half Moon's crew emblazoned around It.

Commenting editorially, the "Morning Post"` says:——

Hudson's Hope, ・・ The new house" of the Hudson's Bay Company stands in pictures- que juxtaposition to the venerable little church of St. Ethelburga the Virgin, where Henry Hudson took Holy Communion before setting out on the first of those four voy- ages which gave Hudson's name to Hudson's Bay. It was therefore an appropriate as well as a plous. Bat for the Governor and Company to commemorate their godfather

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