Thermometers in the open air in a shaded situation in the Enzlish Settlement.
1908, Fahr. Thermometer Rainfall.
Min, Max. in inches Lop Frencu arrived here on Tuesday from Hongkong by the P. M. Mongolia, His Excellency, Mr. G. 0. Wallenberg, Swedish Envoy and Minister Pien potentiary to the Imperial Courts io Tokio and Po ved here on the 6th instant by the R. M.S. Empress of India and put up at the Astor House Hotel. Mr. Wallenberg, who is accompanied by Mr. Falke Cronholm, Secretary of the Legation, and Mr. Gunner Horngren, Attache, leave for Peking, via Hankow, this week. ps Ssnpat, Minister to the Courts of Toki Peking, arrived from Japan on by the Empress of India and is staying at the Hotel des Colonies. Baron de Sendal will leave for the North in a fow days.
The W.-C. Herald and S. C. & C. Gazette.
Tas Hon. Charles Denby, Consul-General for the United States at Shanghai, left for Hankow on Tuesday night. Mr. Denby expects to be away about two weeks and during his absence Mr. F. D. Cloud, Vice-Consul-General will be in charge of the American (Yonsulate-General.
We learn that Mr. von Zeppelin, who has been, up till now, acting Datch Consul-General at this port, has been raised to the rank of a fall Consul-
General.
Mr. Josee Ovenneck Axpensos, formerly known as Hang Kwok-leong, barrister-at-law, secured his admission to the Bar at the Hongkong Supreme Court on March 2. and the dispatch vessel Alacrity, Commander Montagu W. Consett, will expire in September next, but i reported that both vessels will remain on the (hina Station, Mason-Genenat. T. de Courcy Hamilton, v.cw 4.P., Gloucestershire, whose death is reported, was born in Wigton-shire on July 20,1825. He jained the 20th Light Infantry in 1842 and served through the Kaffir War. In the Crimea he served with the 68th Light Tufantry and won his v.c. at Sevastopd, "He received his colonelcy in 1873 and a year later retired on full pay and with the honorary rank of Major-General. Subsequently he resided at Cheltenham. Colonel Claude de Coarey Hamilton, at Army Head Quarters, In eldest son. promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Uolonel, (vice Brevet Col. A. J. Kelly, retired) with effect from December "19 last. Lient.-Col. Broke, who is now serying his second term in Hongkong, has passed over five of his immediate seniors on the majors' list, to which he was advanced in April, 1900.
Der.-Sor. Bookuess, who has been Home on leave, retarned to Shanghai on Saturday and has been transferred from West Hongkew to Hongkew Police Station.
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