GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 39, 17 February 1915, Page 3

GENERAL.

A story of the Prince of Wales, told by the Bishop of Norwich, is revealed in the “British Weekly.” When the Prince was about to enter Osborne, the bishop was one of the board of examiners who examined him in general knowledge. All produced their hardest questions, which the Prince answered readily. The bishop, who was the last to speak, asked him to recite a poem, which the Prince did with extraordinary feeling and charm, his selection being Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar.” When the Prince left the room the examiners conferred as to what mark they should award him, and out of 160 candidates he was bracketed with another boy at the top of the list.

Sir Thomas Sutherland, who has just retired from the chairmanship of the P. and 0. Company after thirtyfour years service in that position is a native of the Granite City, where he was born in 1834. His father had to make a fortune in the colonies and failed, and soon after young, Sutherland was adopted by his maternal grandfather, a retired fish-curer. The old man had the boy well educated at Aberdeen Grammar School with a view to his entering the ministry. The ministry however, did not seem to attrapt him, and consequently he was removed from the University, whit, her he had in due course been sent, and put into a merchant’s office in Aberdeen. Later, at the age of eighteen, he became a junior clerk in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, and the foundation of his success was laid. When he became managing director the opening of the Suez Canal threatened the P, and 0. with ruin. It was Thomas Sutherland who saved the

concern, and finally worked it into its present splendid position.