The number of residents of Shanghai who were contemporaries of Mr: Alfred Charles Westall is getting very small; but there are still a few to'whom the news of his death on the 23rd of July last means a very heavy peraotial loss, and there are still a great many who knew bini well and loved him as one of the kitidesthearted and most popular meu who ever came to China. He came hero consider: ably more than forty' years' to thie firm of Smith, Kennedy & Corin which his brother Robert;\ who retired from Foochow only last year, was one of the partners. "Daddy" Westall, as he was affectionately called, soon became one ofthe leading men héto. He and the late Mr. E. W. Batt laid out the present ground of the Shanghai Cricket Club; he was an enthusiastic rowing man, a most valuable member of the 4. D. C, a Shanghai Ronger, and afterwards a Mib-ho-loong; in fact, he was a keen sportsman all-round. And he. was a hard-working business man withal, His
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