Few of those who were present at the ceremony of presenting the insignia of the Second Class or Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath to Vice-Admiral Sir T. HM. Jerram, Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, will forget the impression which the oc~ casion was calculated to make, says the "Btraits Times" of! February 3. It was in the Legislative Council Chamber that the function took place and was attended by the highest officials in the Colony as well as by heads of various Government departments, all in the regulation dress, members of the Consular body, and a goodly gathering of ladies picturesquely gowned. The assembly included the Governor of the Colony, H. E. Sir A. H, Young, x.c.m-c., and Lady Evelyn Young. The ceremony was timed to commerce at 10 a.m., but fifteen minutes before that hour members of the public began to arrive and to take the seats provided for them outside of the enclosure in which the Council assembles and within which the cere-many was subsequently performed. His Excellency arrived shortly before ten o'clock and proceeded at once with the presentation, He took his seat by the side of a distinguished naval official of our Allies and Admiral Sir Thomas Jerram anproachad the table Major-General R. N. R. Reade, c.n., as his supporter. Both of them were wearing the white uniform of their respective services and the decorations and medals bestowed upon them. Fleet Paymaster Lynes ear-tied the insignia on a velvet cushion and stood at the Admiral's left hand.
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