New Caledonia's New Governor

From Our Own Correspondent.

Noumea, July 6.

ALL vessels in the harbour were gaily be flagged on July 3 to welcome the “Ville d’Amiens” as she came through the heads with Governor Leonce Jore on board to take up the post of “Le Chef de la Colonie”, in succession to M. Jean Marchessou. Madame Jore accompanied His Excellency.

A salute of guns, a company of sol diers with fixed bayonets, and all the leading officials and citizens greeted M.

Jore on the quay. The Mayor oi Noumea, M. Massoubre, on behalf of the Caledonian people expressed their sat isfaction at the Governor’s appoint ment and extended him a warm wel come.

In reply, M. Jore said that when he

learned that the Governorship of New Caledonia was available h© had ap plied for the vacancy and, for the first time in his career, he had been able to show a preference for a country for which he had such a favourable impression.

He had been appointed to this distin guished post entirely by his own wishes.

The following morning, M. Jore accom panied by the retiring Governor, M.

Marchessou. the Commander of the Troops, the Secretary General, and his “Chef de Cabinet”, laid a wreath of flowers at the symbolic monument of the soldiers killed in the great war.

By the “Ville d’Amiens”, there arrived also Monsieur Nouvel de la Fleche, who will act as M. Jore’s private secretary. He was accompanied by his wife.

His Excellency M. Leonce Jore, new Governor-General of French possessions in the Pacific and Governor of New Caledonia, (centre), receiving an address of welcome from the Mayor of Noumea, on his arrival on July 3. Immediately behind the Mayor, at the extreme right (partly obscured), is M. Marchessou, the retiring Governor. On the left are four prom inent French officials of the New Caledonian Administration.