NOTES AND COMMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15249, 12 March 1913, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

it ... „ . -r v - , . » A MONARCH OF SHIPPING. l " With the resignation of Mr- Brace Isd may from - the ' -presidency of the Interna- -- tional Mercantile Marine Company, which r _ includes the White Star and many othei lines, Mr. Harold Sanderson, the new president, cranes into prominence, for h« '6 will have under his control a combined Dl fleet of 126 steamers and a capital oi ie £24.000,000. Mr. Sanderson, says the j_ British Trade Review, is one of the , shrewdest business men of the time, if distinctive for his unvarying courtesy, anc "8 is a hard worker and a skilful organiser. '6 Born at Oxtoa, Birkenhead, he went as a jj young man to his father's firm in New j York, where he gained a practical know ledge of shipping, returning later to Liver pool to join the White Star Line. indue ir court® he became a member of the great j. shipping company which enlarged into the > Internationa] Mercantile Marine Combina tion, that includes the White Star, the Leyland,' American, Dominion, Red Star, a- and Atlantic Transport Lines. He is exa ceedingiy enterprising and yet cautious, ie and hits done much towards establishing new services to Australia, South Africa, 6 the States, and Canada; . and his vast 'd knowledge, of shipping, particularly in re se l&tioo. to American and British trade a will \ l IIS

business between the two possibly, through ■: the" Panama . ll the new markets on- the Pacific coast,ll M. FALLIERES'S RETTREMTnw!^^B| Some. English newspaper* are' opportunities for facetiousness . homely tastes and figure of the President of France, '"white otherg comparing M. Fallieres to Cincinnati Ki ; M turning to the plough. It is impoKfok ' SI says one newspaper, to imagine a dignified departure from office than of French President. "I intend to rtsmae' 1 1 H my old —one month at Easter and jfo#||lß in the summer on my property erf ..'y_ - pillon. I am eager to wander throng tor vineyards, my pruning-knife in my hand for though my vines do not produce a SIH ' grand vin,' I like to think that they cm' the most ,caref ully tended.in all the coon. 'in tryside." A man who, after a distiriL'Sll* guished life in the most famous eeeabr-'WB in modern history, can show at 71 contentment, such simplicity, seems to worthy of the highest regard. He.has-IS* mastered his life, and it now li v under his hand. To be able to pot ujfo s .;j| ambition when, the proper timg coomb j 8 test very few pass successfully.