19th Sept. Tue departure of Mr, Edward Gilchrist Low for home this morning after a residence in China of thirty-one years, the greater part of which time has been spent in Shanghai, demands some comment. In the pleasant address with which Mr, Macgregor presented to Mr. Low on Saturday the plate subscribed for by some of the latter's many friends, Mr. Macgregor did nothing more than justice to the thoroughly representative citizen who is leaving us to-day. It would be difficult to pick out among the old or younger residents one more generally liked and Teepestel. Mr. Low, shortly after leaving Harvard, started on a voyage for his health to Australia in 1861. His ship, as the clippers constantly did in those days, came on to China, and in China he determined to make his career. At Foochow, Kiukiang, Hongkong, and Shanghai he has been one of the pillars of the community. Eminent in business, in social life, and in sport, he has been, as Mr. Macgregor said, "a man amongst men," looked up to and esteemed in every path which he trod, and he has found in Mrs. Low a consort worthy of him in every particular. In his address Mr. Macgregor omitted to mention that Mr. Low was one of the original. members of the Mih-ho-loong Hook and Ladder Company, when the Fire Brigade was started after a large fire in the Maloo in which he and Mr. F, A. Groom distinguished themselves; and that he was one of the original Mih-ho-loong Rifle Volunteers, when the corps was re-organised after the tientsin massacre. We lose in him a man of energy and decision, of clear judgment, of great common sense, of wide sympathies, and of the mest genial manners; one of the best of friends, at once a good American and a good cosmopolitan, The last year or so has seen many serious gaps made in the ranks of the older residents here, and a very large gap is made this morning. E. G. Low can be ill spared, and we only express the feelings of the whole community of all nationalities in saying how deeply. we regret. his departure and how earnestly we wish for himself and Mrs. Low every possible success-and happiness in the future, Rowzands' Macassan Oi preserves and strengthens the hair, prevents it falling off or turning grey, and is the best brilliantine for everybody's use, being not too greasy of too drying; also sold in a golden colour for fair-Limited ladies and children; bottles 3s, 6d., 7s., 10s, 6d. Rowtanns' Evxonta is a pure and fragrant toilet powder, in three tints—white, rose, and cream; Is. and 2s, 6d. boxes. Ask any dealer in perfumery for Rowtsnvs' articles, of 20, "Hatton Garden, Londo. 2
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