The following account, from the Bombay Muder will be read with Gazette, of w very populxe old Shunghiaiinterest THE TRANSY. Since 1884 there has bee lutment nadeto the Legislative Cutnellrepresenting the small but influential Jewish com-S. M. Moses, of the firm of visitation of plague, famine, and war, renders an account of the life of one of the most prominent Jewish residents in this great city appropriate ut the present time, laily us the Hon, Mr.S. 3L Moses of Bombay took no small part, as a visiting Justice of the Pence, in the work of com-biting the first visitation of plague. Mr. Moses is an example of the advantage which travel and knowledge of men of various races con-for upon men of broad and generous sympathies, A grandson of the late venerable David Sassoon of Bombay, he was born in that city in 1845. After receiving sound education at the Elphinstone High School, he proceeded to Chinn in 1862, where, after a course of mercantile training, he was admitted to a partnership in the firm of Messrs, David Sassoon Sons and Ca., Shanghui, For over eighteen years he conducted the business of the firm with ability and zeal, devoting no small share of his spare time to advancing the civil interests of the settlement as one of its municipal councillors, In 1880 he returned to India, where he married Miss E. 1 a grand-daughter of the Into Sir Albert Sassoon, Me. Moses joined the firm of Messrs. David Sassoon and Ca,, in 1880, m he worked with singular zeal and and he was this year admitted a Fidingand Chinn, Hislinguisticacquirements partner in their several firms in England,
ure of no small value to a firm having ramifications in almost every country in the Enst; Mr. Moses is not only a good English and Hebrew scholar, he is also proficient in the French, German, Arabic, and Hindustani, Murathi, Guzrati, and Chinese Inngunges, He was nominated Inst year by H. E. the Governor a Fellow of the University, but his business life and the study of foreign tongues do not exhaust his energies, His public work includes memberships of the Port Trust and of the Board of the Bank of Bombay; he was elected its President in January, 1898, and during his term of office he had the good fortune of presenting n record report to the shareholders of the Bank, yielding a profit of 35 per cent per unurn. He is also member of the committees of the David Sassoon Reformatory and—Industrial Institution, of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Millowners' Association, An. effective and logical speaker, his help has often been requisitioned in public meetings, Darban, Notal, in a letter dated January Messrs. David Suswon and Ca, of this city, and he is especially at home in dealing with 20, and published in Inst Ssturday's issue jun been now appointed to the Legislative financial questions, whether local or imperial, of the Cork County Eagle, discusses the [Council by LIH. E. Lord Sandhurst. Mr. His multifarious public engagements are statement which was wade by De. Leyds in letter to Mr. W. Rediond, M.P., thai Catholics in the Transyaud were on an equality with people of other religions denominations, is the third member of the community "never allowed to stand in the way of the who had the honour of having "duty he owes to his community. His Legislative Council. The first was generosity to the Jewish poor of this city is the late Sir Albert Sassoon, and the © proverbial, and all movements having for late Mr. Solomon David Sussoon. their object the advancement of the moral marke Mr. O'Hea, a downright, The nomination of Me. Moses has huge falsehood, and no one knows general satisfaction amongst all sections of that better than Dr, Leyds him: the Bombay community, with whom he is For a fow years past ith very popular, and we are sure that h 3 been the practice in' advertising as to commercial experience and intimate vacancies to be filled (in the Transvanl li prove an acquisi public service) to put in w posteript to the We give here a brief effect that none except " member of a recognised Protestant Church need apply.
The large share of public attention that Dr. Leyds himself was in the Government hiss been directed to India during the past meu it was decided to make the appoint
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