Mr. and Mrs. H.T. Montague Bell and their children left Shanghai on Tuesday afternoon for Japan whence, in due coarse, they will go to Eorope. A great crowd of friends was present on the jetty, when the tender Alexandra off for the R.M.S. Empress of to bid them farewell with deep and sincere regret, A fusillade of crack-ere was fired off at their departare by the Chinese employees of the "N. C. Daily News". During the five years, all bot " few months, that Mr. and arm friends, by whom they will be very greatly missed. was felt for them was shown in the farewell presentations, of which a brie! account appeared in these calamus on Monday. Bat it cult on such more or less formal occasions to say all that is in the heart. Friends outside the office will speak of Mr. Bell on their own account. or those who have bad to work under him, it is to be said that they never knew a chief more sympathy considerate, or one who spared himeelf less in daily and nightly work. He was never too busy to have time for counsel and help where others were concerned, and his keen sense of humour tided over many an awkward situation and lightened the dullest of dall routine. The same may be said, mutatis muran of Mrs, Bell, who charmed those came in contact with her by the unfailing kindness of her disposition and her readiness to do whatever could be done for others. Of none who have left Shanghai can it Be more traly said that good wishes follow them for " pleasant journey and all prosperity in the fatare.
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