Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1049, 2 December 1909, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

' Tin-; news i.s confirmed that Sir Arthur Wilson is to succeed Sir John Fisher as Britain's I'irst Sea Lord. Rumour also had it that Sir John was to be | elevated to the peerage. -Sir Arthur I Wilson, who is said to be a naval ; ,<traiegi*t of a high order, is 67 years ot age. lie served in the Crimean War. in the Chinese AVar of 1865, and I in Kgypt and the Soudan. He was I a Lord Commissioner of the Admir--1 altv and Comptroller of tire Navy i Imm 1 897 to .190.1 ; was then appointed to the command of the Channel Sijiudron. and two years later was I appointed Commander-iii-Chief of the 1 Home and Channel fleets. His term of office in this capacity ended _in l'.)l)7. Admiral Wilson wea*s the Victoria Cross, and is a Grand Commander of the Hath and of the Victoria Order-. It is to be hoped that he has more tact and less bitterness ' in his m:«ke-up than Sir John Fisher i and Lord Clnrles BerestWd, wlto ' made things merry at the Admiralty ■ with games of cross purposes and ■ petty jealous. ies ___.