[managing director of Messrs, To: is & Riddle (China) Ld. and Mrs, Percival are sailing for Eng-ud by the Empress of Russia:
Amonc the passengers on the str, Malwa were the following. Naval officers: Engr. Car. Ramp-ling, Lieut. Yeoman, and Lieut. Cooper, who will "goon Weihaiwei by the str. to join H.M.S. Hawkins at Shuntien to-day; It-Cdr. Wingfield, who has come out as commanding officer of H.M.S. Woodlark, Lieut. "Cook of H.M.S. Woodlark, and Pay-Master Si Lieut. Ackery of H.M.S. Cairo who left on Tuesday by the str. Tuckwo to join their ships on the Yangtze.
Tae Baroness von Schoven, wife of the First Secretary of the Gertion in Peking, thas returned from a visit abroad and is stopping at the Palace Hotel on way to Peking.
Mr, A. E. Tipper has been elect ed Vice-Chairman and Honorary Treasurer of the British Municipal Council at Tientsin, These offices became vacant on the resignation of Mr. E, W, Carter, who has returned home.
Amoco the passengers arriving in Shanghai by the str. Hakozaki Maru to-day are Mr. H, F. Meyer of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, with his wife and daughter, Mr. G. A. Member, secretary of the Now Engineering and Shipbuilding Works, Ld. and Mrs Member. Br. Pessoomull Moo! chand, the proprietor of the local firm of Pohosmull Bros. silk merchants, left for Home by the same boat' after a short tour of China and Japan.
Mr. G. G. Stroebe, Chief Survey Engineer of the Technical Committee of the. Yangtse River Commn, has returned to Shanghai from a trip to Hankow where he went in the interests of the Commission. He met in Hankow Messrs, Chow and Van der Veen of Vice-Apaunat, Sir Allan Frederick Everett, K.c.M K.CV.0. C0, has been placed on the Retired List, to date August 12, Sir Allan Everett held the post of Command. er-in-Chief, China station, until early this year, when he rolinguishthe appointment on account of ill-health, Ir is a pleasure to announce that Mr. Perry, who, it will be recalled, grappled with the armed robber on the Bund several weeks ago, has at last been released from hospital, Though the surgeons tried X-Rays, they found advisable to' Yeave the small bullet in the shoulder of the anil unless a more propitious moment comes to hand, Mr. Perry carry the leaden pellet for the remainder of his days.
Peking, who are- members of the Commission, and the three made a close inspection of dyke conditions between Hankow and Yochow with
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