It is with deep personal regret that we (the Crylun Obsercer) received the intelligence to-day from Me, Win. Macgregor, of Gova Adika, Gany we death of his brother, Mr. J gor, on the 7th inst, at Shanehai, Not many years ago an older brother still, " prominent Colombo merchant, Mr. George Macgregor, died under very sad circumstances ('he result o£ a carting accident) xt Uplands, Mutwal. But Mr. John Macgregor had' risen to grenter eminence in the Kor East; for he was the repr ive xt Shanghai of the leading China House, Messrs. Sardi Matheson & C",, and he had also for many years ocoupied "prominent i as Chairman of the Shang!
Conneil—and,—therefpractically as Governor for the the foreign Settlement. Then Mr, John Macgregor was fa man of the highest personal character—aw example to young and old in Shanghai and the El at, as one American resident 25 years in Shanghai told us during our nage together across the Pac be, Our sense of personal loss in the death of Mr. Mxcgregor arises from the fact that we hailed from the same county in the far North of Scotland, had been schiocl-fellows and rivals, panionship had ripened which distance could Macgregor passed through 1 us, and always t health. He will be greatly missed at SI i. His illness must have run its course rapidly, as we see no hint in the papers received by this mail up to 2th Uctober, The telegram gives no partioulare beyond the death. Sympathy is due to his brother here and another, Me. Robert Macgregor (formerly of Col be, now of Shanghai), and to relatives in Exater Ross, Scotland. A Colombo banker with prolonged China experience thus refers tu the deceased ina note to us Very sorry indeed to hear the aad news, knew Mr. Macgregor very well, although of course I was younger than he. He was a very prominent, public-spirited, and ked Shanghai resident, Representing 'e, Matheson & Ca., and Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, he ws quite " public man, and when anything Scottish was going' on—a St. Andrew's Dinner or Ball or anything else—he was always to the front. Last year he was President of the China Association, And in that capacity, by the way, Mr. Mnegregor wrote a long remonstrance to the Viceroy of Indin and Secretary of State on the serious injury which their Silver policy was certain to inflict on trading rela-tious between India and China,
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