The Parsee community in Shanghai and a great many others also, beard with deep regreet last Friday of the death in Bombay, on the 10th instant, of Mr. B. H. Dastur, who was very well known both in China and Japan. He spent 15 years in the Shanghai office of Messrs. R. D. Tata & Ca. and was in charge of it from 1912 to 1916. He was then transferred to Bombay, as secretary of the head office. -Mr. Dastur, who was 42 years of age at the time of his death, was a very accomplished and cultured gentleman, who held university degrees, and he hadj the gift of making many firm friends.
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