Marine Department Gifts at Retirement 'The Customs House was the scene of two. interesting presentations Thursday afternoon, when. members of the Marine' Depart ment staff gathered in their drawing office to make two Dresentations to Capt. H. E. Hillman, M, (retired), who has just lett the department after 28 years' service. [Copt. Hillman is, however, continuing in the Customs' service for another year in a special capacity at the Inspectorate-Generat, in connection }with pilotage matters, The first presentation on Thursday was made by Capt, L. R. Carrel, who has taken Capt. Hillman's post (as [Coast Inspector. On behalf of the Portrait by Dorothea Bertrand. captain LIB, tttiman, foreign staff of the department he handed Capt. Hillman a gold cigarette lease suitably inscribed, and a {travelling clock. The second presentation, on behalf of the Chinese staff, iwas' made by Mr. Z. ¥. Chen, and consisted of a beautiful model of a [Chinese sampan in jasper jade, together with a silver plate bearing an inscription.
Those present at the brief cer many were as many of the Marine [Department who could get there, Horeign and Chinese, of both sexes.
Capt. H. E. Hillman, BU. (ret... will retire as Coast Inspector on Thursday after a long and distinguished career in the Chinese Mari-_ time Customs. He will be relieved by Capt. L. R, Carrel, former River Inspector on the lower Yangtze, but will remain in the Customs service for another year, under contract, serving on the Inspector-General's staff in connection with pilotage matters.
Captain Hillman first saw service in China in the Royal Navy in the nineties. "He was first a sublieutenant and then a lieutenant in. HAMS," Firebrand, a 500-ton wooden gunboat which operated on the China Coast and on the Yang-zo, and he served in this ship from January 22, 1898, to March 31, 1807 Subsequent chapters of Captain Hillman's naval career are summarized as follows:
Served as first lieutenant and navigating officer of HMS. Humber from August, 1898, to October, 1899. This vessel was a storeship and was Jengaged in supplying stores to the fleet when it was absent from Hongkong.
Served as Lieutenant in command of HMS. Woodlark. from October, 1889, to June, 1901. This vessel was shallow-draught river gunboat operating on the Yangtze and Tungting and Poyang Lakes. In" this vessel Capiain Hillman made many. surveys of the two lakes and the
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