Chefoo, Aug. 31.
It is with real regret that we have to announce the early departure from Chefoo of Mr.
Harold Porter, who has been Acting-Consul here for some months past. He has proved himself a most active and able Consul and has earned the highest appre ion of this community for his pains ta ing efforts on their behalf and especially in the interests of the creditors in re L. Sing-tai & Co.'s bankruptcy.
We shall miss him. We heartily congratulate him, however, upon his appointment to Chengtu, where as Consul-General he w find more scope for his ab and judicial powers. A complimentary dinner was given to him last evening.
Mr. F. McCarthy, Principal of the C. LIN. Boys' School, left last Monday for rope, vii Siberia, on furlough, and on Thursday the Rev. F, W. Baller left for Shanghai, and Inter Tientsin, where he will resume his duties as one of the Committee appointed for the Revision of the Bible in Chinese.
These three who have left and are about to leave are all hard workers: and after all, it such who are highly appreciated by those left be-
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