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APPOINTMENT TO JAMAICA.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1925.

THE LATE MR. J. BELL-IRVING.

FUNERAL AT LOCKERBIE.

A RIVAL STAY-AT-HOME.

FORMER HONGKONG

RESIDENT.

The following bettor recently ap peared in tho N C. D. News. Bir,-- In the "From Day to Day" colunin of to-day's issue of the North China Daily News, you quote the following:

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A certain Mr. T. A. Apear, who hasn't been out of Bangkok for 38 years is announced to be going to Singapore for a three weeks' holi- day. Can we equal thin in Shang- hait

Thomas Neal Sinclair (83) for thei past 10 years employed at the Shanghai Gas Company, las not been out of Shanghai during the period 1873-1920 (47 years). In No- vembor 1920 he mando a short holi- day trip to Honolula, returning in January 1991, and has not loft Shanghai or the Gas Co. since.

A London Appreciation. The late Mr. John Bell-Irving, After much speculation says the partner in Jarding, Matheson and China Express. It is now learned Co and Chairman of the Hongkong that Sir Edward Stubbs, whose and Shanghai Bank, was laid to Arm handling of the situation at rest on Aug. 3 at the Church of St. Mungo, near Lockerbie. In a Hongkong during recent critical weeks has won universal admira- good old age, says the local paper, the twelfth laird of Whitehill and tion, has been appointed Captain-

Milkbank was truly gathered to his General and Governor-in-Chief of

people. For round the open grave Jamaica. He ja to be succeeded at were stones, bearing the beloved and in answer to your query, I tako Hongkong by Mr. Cecil Clementi, name of the family begotten of pleasure in giving you another, one GM.G., formerly a cadet in the Duke Richard in the sixteenth better:. Hongkong Service, who for the century and expanded by the Bolla of Milkbánk in the middle of the last twelve years has occupied

eighteenth century. It was fitting high administrative posts in Bri- that the officiating minister was he tish Gulana and Ceylon, and of Hoddom, the parish into which whose valuable work in Hong- the Irvings first came, and there kong, particularly in connection was something appropriate, too, in; with the opium question, has not the mist and the rain, for the motto been forgotten. Sir Edward of the family is "Sab sole, sub Stubbs's term of office in Hong-umbra, vivens." Up the old road kong has witnessed remarkable de-following the horse and the lorry velopments, and while at the mo- bearing the coffin was a long mile

the Colony is passing of cars with people from each side in through the most depressing phase of the Border to pay the last office in its history, due to the boycott of respect to, one to whom all eyes and strike and the envy and en-looked up, and, the simple service mity of Bolshevist Canton, he over, lairds and servants, hunters will be able to hand over to his of the hare and the otter, lovers successor a charge vastly greater of the rod and gun, slowly left.; in importance to the Empire than remembering the kindliness, the that which Mr. Clementi left, ingeniality, the fine old Scottish 1013. Industrially and commer; character of the sportsman they cially the Colony has progressed had laid away. The pall-bearers in recent years by leaps and

were: Captain John Bell-Irving bounds, and, once, the Check Is removed, many further schemes of development are ready to make a beginning. Sir Edward Stubbs is still at the seat of trouble, having announced his determination to "see it through." His term of office expires in Sep- tember, but he was to have return-, ed to England on leave in June when the present trouble in China arose. Having handled the trouble with conspicuous ability, the situa tion is now such that it is thought |

ment

present (504) Hi David Bell Irving.

the oldest foreign resident ia I am not sure but that Mr. Sinclair Shanghai, if not China, for he resided

Hongkong for years before coming to Shanghai.

'I am, etc.,

C. L. CHEN.

A number of

SUMARTA FILMED.

A-Southern-Paradise:

Colonel Andrew Ball-Irving, D.S.O., and Mr. James Jardine Bell-Irving. of Makerstoun (brothers), Sir subject of a fascinating travol The island of Sumatra is the Robert Buchanan Jardine,

repicture, to be presented shortly in Thirlestane and Captain Cochran presented by his son, Lord London under the title "A South- arn Paradise," the record of an oxpedition led by Captain O'Brien Hitching.

OBITUARY.

there will be no obstacle to his REAR-ADMIRAL C. F. WALKER. leaving at any early date, perhaps, next month. In Jamaica he will doubtless find a more congenial

Rear-Admiral Charles Francis atmosphere than has prevailed in Walker, retired, one of the oldest Hongkong for the last eight weeks surviving officers of his rank in the or so, and the West Indian colony Navy, died after a short illness is to be congratulated upon the at his residence, The Hall, Beverley, acquisition of such a distinguished East Yorks, on Aug. 8. Born on member of His Majesty's Civil Feb. 6, 1836, in the reign of Service for its chief administra, William IV., Admiral Walker enter. tive office. Hongkong, while re-ed the Nucy on Jan. 4, 1850, o gretting its failure to prevall upon board the Phaton, 50-gun ship, the Colonial Office to reappoint and served in the Black Sea during Sir Edward, will give a cordial the war with Russia, being awarded welcome to Mr. Clementi, whose the Crimean and Turkish. medala great ability was recognised in and clasp for Sebastopol Or Jane the Colony long before he left it. 17, 1862, he was appointed to the screw frigate Euryalus, flagship in China of Vice-Admiral Sir Augustus A robin, which was protected by Kuper, for disposal, and while in considerable service a family in Pennsylvania when it her fell out of a nest, has become the against pirates in China. For this. inseparable companion of a fox he was promoted to commander in terrier. Frequently the bird rides November, 1864, at the early age around on the 'dog's back.

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One of the most important in Sumatra is the cultivation of co- conuts. The most important in, dustry in Sumatra is the cultiva tion of laziness. The coconut har- vest, for example, is gathered en- tirely by monkeys, trained to climb trees and to pick the coco-time that humming-birds some- It has been known for a long nuts according to a sort of Malay-times pollinate flowers, just as One of the strangest businesses Morse signalled by string from the bees and butterflies often do. But in the world is a butterfly farm ground. The spectacle of such the researches of Otto Porsch carried on at Bexley, in Kent. monkey at work is one of the most show that there are far more Here, on less than an acre of extraordinary franks of naturo flower-birds than has been sup-ground at the rear of a house, shown on the screen.

posed, and far more bird-flowers, bawk moths are reared every millions of butterflies and giant

The only exception to cult of 100, laziness in Sumatra is in the In Java he found that over year to find their way to all parts field of sport. The Malay sixteen per cent, of the families of the earth. Derby is a race in which a pair of flowering plants have bird The Zoological Gardens at Re- of buffaloes are harnessed to lower representatives. Fully gent's Park receive a daily con plough" shafts and are driven fifty genera have species that are signment. All the specimens of through a half-flooded rice-field: bird-pollinated. And the Java British butterflies in the insect The buffalo driver has to stand nese flower-birds belong to house there began their existence balanced on the plough shafts, twenty-two different kinds. Al- on this Bexley farm, which bred but, as we see, while many receive together Porsch finds evidence of between eight and nine thousand sub-of one kind alone the handanine involuntary mud baths, few sac-over 1,600 tropical and cood in staying the course. tropical flower-birds, including tortoiseshell and pancock Vanossa

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only those thap habitually visit variety for the Zoo a year ago.

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When a "Daily Express" re- shows boxing pigeons, wrestling head feathers, and quails and buffaloes, and fist so less depend on the nectar of found popular trocs covered with more or presentative visited the farm he

tame that they eat out of the hand, the flowers for their food bags, made of tiffany, and the.

and drink. With their intense place having the appearance of a metabolism and high temper-balloon park Those bags known ature, birds usually require a res sleeves," of which eight latively large supply of liquid, and hundred are used every year, watery nectar is a great help in keep the hordes of caterpillars tropical and sub-tropical · coun-from straying and protect the tríos Moreover, nectar

larvas from the birds and their tains, not only various sugars, worst enemy the ichneumon fly. forming a suitable food for stren-!

DEFENSIVE TACTICS. uously exercised muscles, but One of the butterfly species

the Papilio Machaon; a beautiful Flower visitors belong to such yellow and black, measuring families as the humming-birds and three to, three and a-half inches the honey-birds, but the habit has across, a native of the Fons, has heen acquired in no fewer than a summary manner of dealing thirty-ono different families. Of with its enemies. It is the only course, some birds are more tho-species with the soont gland roughgoing flower-visitors than through the head and when others, but none are included in attacked it emits a pungent scent the list that are not more or less of pear essence which drives off dependent on nectar; none are the intruder." included that simply go to, the

When an experiment was car blossoms to pick off small insects ried out on one or two the odour and spiders. The flower-birde could be smelt

at the other ond of tend to be small in size, and strong the farm.

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in wing, able to flutter before or The hawk mothe reared on the poise themselves on, the blossoms. farm are the popular, oyed, and They usually havé à fino-pointed lime varieties, Mr. L. D. New- bill, sometimes elongated, and a man, the proprietor of the farm, long, slender tongue, sometimes stated that thres of the largest with processes like a brush.⠀ • "sleeved" trees, each one 30 feet. The bird flowore are usually high, fed three thousand of those conspicuously coloured (including moths, 20 of which will strip a pure white) and usually scentless. poplar tree three feet in diameter They produce large quantities of in four days.. They sat sideways watery nectar, and many of them along the edge of the leaves. have special capillary arrango- Mr. Nawman had just returned ments around the mouth of the from an expedition, bringing with nectar receptacle, which tend to him no fewer than 15,000 cater- provent wasteful overflow. Good pillars, the result of a week-end examples are to be found among search in the woods and flolda of the following kinds: fuchsins Berkshire. Most of these, whon mallows, aloes, tropacoluem, ver- in due course they attain the moth benas, honeysuckles, gardenias, stage, rovealing the bright red cacti, candas, irises. They must behind wings and bluish grey and so built that the stamens dust the red-striped fore wings of the Cin- bird's head with pollen, and that nabar species, are destined for the etigins of another blossom is New Zealand. in turn dusted." If the bird in a

good pollinator, it will be, for fore, for finer adaptation. It is several reasons, botter than a bee; not that ornithophily" is a new and floral variations that accomthing; what Porsch has shown is modato it on its visits will make that it is much more frequent for suror pollination and, there- than was supposed-Ex.