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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 18 December 1914, Page 8

Miss Fanny Paris, of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, has received a message from the congratulating her on attaining hep 100 th birthday. The German Royal Standard will be flown from the flagstaff at the Town Hall to-day (says the "Otago Daily Times" of* Monday). There will be no significance in the spectacle. The British •National Flag will be proudly displayed above it. This German standard is one of the flags that were captured by the New Zealand Expeditionary Force that occupied Samoa. It was originally intended that it should bo flown over Government House. Samoa, where, however, the Union Jack has taken the place for which it had been destined. It has now been received by Mr W. J. Morroll, Rector of the Boys' High School, as a gift to the_scbool.' to which it was sent by an "old boy," Captain It. W. Wdl : kinson, who was a member of tho "advance guard" that went to Samoa. Captain Wilkinson also saw service in the Boer War as a member of the New Zealand Fourth Contingent, and subsequently of the Seventh Contingent, in winch he obtained a commission.

The Admiralty have made an excellent selection of names for the new ships which have been acquired by purchase for the Royal Navy. H.M.S. Canada, as the big "battleship Almiranto Latorre is now known, is a compliment to the people of tho great Dominicn, and it is-fitting that, her name should appear in the "Navy List", with those of Australia and New Zealand. The Almiranto Latorre was originally named a distinguished naval officer, who. as a captain, captured the Hnascar in th" war between Chili and Pern. Her sister ship, the Almanto Cochrane, which- is now completing in .England, takes her name from the celebrated Admiral Thomas Cochrane, Lord Dundonald, who was in the service of Chili from 1818 until 1823. The immense popularity of the now famous sorie doubtless influenced the Lords of the Admiralty in selecting Tipperary as tho name for one of the hew destroyer flotilla leaders. Scottish people will "doubtless put forward a claim .for a larger share in naval nomenclature, for Ireland has provided not only Tipperary, but Erin, the name given to one "of the battleships, taken from Turkey, and'the names of the battleship Hibernia the' light cruiser Dublin, and the destroyer Foyle. Scotland is represented by the cruiser Duke of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the Destroyer Garry.