Anderson Mowat assumes the positions of Acting Chief-Justice of HBM.'s Supreme Court for China and Japan and Acting Consul-General at this port Mr. Robert William Mansfield assumes the positions of Acting Assistant Judge of the Court and Acting Consul; and Mr. Michie Forbes Anderson Fraser, the positions of Acting Senior Vice-Consul and Assessor at the Mixed Court. The Foreign Office is lucky in having two such capable men at hand as Messrs. Mowat and Mansfield to prepare the way for the permanent occupants of the new posts, and they may be trusted to lighten as much as is possible any difficulties that the change of system is expected to produce.
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