Rumours have been current in the Settlement lately that a gentleman living at the Family Hotel, named Mr. Hope Bill, was missing, and it was said tht he had fallen out of a sampan and been drown-the river. There were also rumours as to the body having been found. Mr. Hope Bill came out of the Bos day expressly to ask us to contradict these rumours.
Asap fatality occurred on the river on Wednesday afternoon, The boys of the St. Xavier's School went for a picnic to Lung Hua Pagoda, and during the afternoon several of the boys bathed in the river. Between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon a little boy named Adrian Russell,
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