OUR LONDON LETTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 184, 6 August 1928, Page 10

OUR LONDON LETTER.

LORD JELLICOE'S FREEDOM. WHAT LA HOGTTE MIGHT HAVE DONE. JEWISH DINNER AT GUILDHALL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, June s>ti. The freedom of the city of Canterbury was conferred on Lord .lellicoe in the ancient Guildhall last week. In acknowledging the honour. Lord .lellicoe said that Canterbury and Kent had produced many seamen of renown. One most closely associated with Canterbury and whose name transcended that of all others was Sir George Rooke, who was born in 1650, and fought many a light. He fought at Beaehv Head and also at Liji Hoguo, and he proposed and carried out the capture of Gibraltar. "The particular part which Sir George Fiooke played >in the Battle of La Hogue," said Lord Jeliicoe, *"has a personal interest for me, because my mother's great-great-great-grandfather was also a naval

officer in< that battle. He SuuL the good .fortune to stop a musket ball w-ith a silver tobacco box, otherwise it might have wiped him out, and perhaps might have resulted in my not being here before you to-day." Lord Jeliicoe paid a warm tribute to both the Navy and the mercantile marine. Afterwards, accompanied by Lady Jeliicoe. Lord •lellicoe laid a wreath at the foot- of the City War Memorial. Addressing members of the British Legion assembled there, he said he was proud of being president of the Legion, and all his efforts -would be devoted in future to forwarding its aims and ideals. The Legion was a great power for good, not only in this country, but throughout the world. Lord Jellieoe, on the following day, received the honorary freedom of Hastings. The streets were lined 'with ex-service men, who welcomed him as he drove to the new headquarters of the local British Legion. At noon the presentation of the honorary freedom of the borough took place on the front, and was attended Barons of the Cinque Ports, wearing their medieval picturesque robes. After a public luncheon, Lord Jeliicoe opened the new British Legion headquarters. He then drove to the White Hock pleasure grounds and there opened a new bowls pavilion, which has just been completed. The new British Legion headquarters have been provided by public subscription as the result of an appeal started by the Prince of Wale«s during his visit in April last year. Sea Lovers All. Lord Pentland, who is twenty-one years old, sailed on the Mauretania as an engineer last Saturday. am sailing," he said, "under a private arrangement between the Cunard Company and the Cambridge. 'University engineering department. During, the vacation fifteen undergraduates will he sailing on different liners.-under the same scheme." L&rd Pent land's granduncle, the Hon. James Gordon, -'was the first mau to Cross the 35ngIish -Channel in a canoe. Another granduncle, the sixth Eafl of Aberdeen, w as swept overboard when serving as a mate on a voyage ifroin Boston to Melbourne) and his un.de, Lord Dudley Gordon. is a practical mechanical engineer.

Major H. L. Nathan, tho chairman of the Balfcrur Forest Committee, who is responsible for organising' the Anglo•lewieft dinner to Lord Balfour in the Guildhall, announces that only kosher food is to be (served at it. This will <rive the dinner a second distinction, the first being the fact that thin in the first time in its long liLstorv that the Guildhall has been placed at the disposal of the Anglo-Jewish community. The R.X.V.R. (Auxiliary Patrol) Club held their lfttith monthly dinner at the Connaught Rooms on Thursday, when they entertained the founder and president of the club, Commander Harry Va.iidervell. as the guest of the evening. Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, representing the Prince of Wales, the patron-in-chief, presided, and presented to Commander I\. V'andervell. on behalf of the members, a silver salver on which were inscribed the facsimile signatures of 254 subscribers. including the Princc of Wales. Lord Beatty, and Lord Jellicoe, The Late Lord Carrington. A correspondent of the London "Times" sends an interesting note on tile late Lord Lincolnshire, better known in Australia as Lord Carrington: "Your comprehensive obituary of the "Marquess of Lincolnshire contains reference to his 'geniality and approaclialtleness' while holding the Governorship of New South Wales, also to the assistance in his task rendered by 'his charming wife.' That tribute to both is well deserved. There must be many who will remember that Lord Carrington (as he then was known) took up the appointment at a time when the prestige of the position was not at its highest. The tact and sbeneticial activities of the new governor and his wife restored that prestige, with the result that when, on the completion of the term of office, they left Sydney the unconventional demonstration of affectionate esteem was as spontaneous as ii was remarkable. One of their daughters (the,late Viscountess Bury) was born at Sydney, and the people derived much pleasure from the fact that two of the names given to her were "Sydney' (the premier city) and 'Myee,' the latter in Australian dialect signifying 'native born.' This uncommon procedure - was; followed in the family* of the late Earl of Onslow, who, while Governor of New Zealand} gave his second son the name 'Huia,' recalling the feather used by the Maoris as a badge of chieftainship.'"

The NewjSpeaker.

Captain G. A. F-itßoy, the newSpeaker, succeeds Mr. Whitley, of Whitley Councils fame and begetter of industrial peace. Captain Fitzßov is widely respected in stock breeding circlcs for his good work as president of the Shorthorn Society. The Speaker has long been interested in the breeding of pedigree cattle, and at Foxhiil West Haddon, Rugby, he maintains to-day a herd of Dairy Shorthorns of the most fashionable breeding. Although the herd was started as recently as 1916, the foundation animals were so carefully selected as regards breeding, conformation, and milking qualities that to-day it ranks as one of the foremost in the country. The famous Bates Wild Eyes family is very prominent in the history of the Fox Hill herd. A noted cow of this line of blood was Wrest Wild Eyes, who gave over 10.0001b of milk after her second calving. Of this line also is the bull Wild Eyes Dairyman, a sire with over a thousand gallons of milk on both -sides of his parentage. Another famous Shorthorn I family was represented in the foundation cow Lady Carl of the Booth Madeline MMWOIb, cow, and whose Clifford. Lady Carl, averaged £USZ!b of h«% each year for five years.