A notable seafaring career is closed by the retirement, at the age of 74, of Captain Thomas Steven, a Dundonian, who 54 years ago joined the merchant service. Captain Steven's first ship was the Santiago, engaged in the West Coast trade. Then he served with the B. I. S. N. Ca. in their ships which plied between Calcutta and China. Captain Steven afterwards joined the str. Jumna, which was sunk in the Indian Ocean.by the Gernian raider Wolf. The Captain, along with his mates, remained captives on the raider for several months, and were ultimately transferred to German internment camps. Captain Steven is among the British masters who have reparation claims against the German Government.
Bor ror SuaNGHal.
The Rev. Harry Bunce, who leaves shortly to take up the duties of his new appointment as Princi pal of Medhurst College, Shanghai, is kindly remembered by many of the demobilized soldiers who made his friendship when he acted as chaplain to the Forees. Mr. Bunce is well known in the North, especially in © Newport-on-'t'a; where he often occupied the pulpit in the pretty little Congregational Church where his brother, the Rev. Arthur Bunce, is pastor.
Lavyon oF P. & O. Lise.
Messrs. Harland & Wolff have launched from their Greenock yard the twin-screw steamer Ballarat, which they have built to the order of the P. & O. The dimensions are—length, 587 ft.; breadth, Gt ft.; depth. 41 ft.; gross tonnage, 500. There is" accommodation for 500 passengers, and provision can be made on*main deck to take 950 third-class passengers.
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