Sin Skinner Turner returned from ingtao last Friday night by the Blue Funnel str. Hector.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. King and' leheir daughter are back—from Chinwangtao.
Cou. and Mrs. W. F. L. Gordon returned from Weihaiwei at the end of last week.
Tue Rev. C. M. Drury, pastor of Community Church, left on Monday for a 10-day vacation in Ningpo.
Mz. L. A. Lyall, Commissioner of castoms, sailed "in the P. & O. Soudan for Bombay on Saturday.
Dr. Charles J. Fox, editor of the "North-China Daily Star," Tientsir, is in Shanghai on a business trip ind staying at the Astor House Hotel.
Cost. G. de' Rossi, the Italtan Consul-General, returned from Weihaiwei on Saturday, accompanied by Mme. de' Rossi.
Mr. A. A. Biggs, who will be! absent from Shanghai until—the spring, left Shanghai on Saturday in the Soudan.
Ma, Cheng Chien, Civil Governor of Kiangsu, will arrive here some time next week to assume his concurrent post as Tupan of Shanghai and Woosung Special Municipality.
WeoNesoay was the 2,486th birthday of China's Sage, Confucius. Due ceremonies will be observed the Confucian Temple at West Gate. Some Chinese public offices and the tanks will be closed. Yellow flags were hoisted by many shops.
Mr. W. Roderick Dorsey, formerly U. S. Administrative Consul Shanghai, and since then in Florence, Italy, is passing through Shanghai en route to his new consular post in Tsingtao.
Eric. Capt. A. W. McKinley, who is the British Fleet Engineer Officer, has arrived in Shanghai and is staying with and child at the Astor House Hotel until leaving Commo. Engineer A. T. Bird has been appointed to H. M. 8. Durban and Lieut. A.R. Higgins to H.MLS, Despatch.
Miss Frieda Fromme! has joined the staff of the Shanghai American, Schoo! as pianoforte instructor, returning after two years private teaching.
A cable received last week announced that the Order of Chevalier of the Crown of Italy had been bestowed upon Sig. P. Milanese, Italian Vice-Consul.
Owixc to the fact that he and this men have not been paid for many months, Admiral Yang Shu-chuang, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, has tendered his resignation to the Ministry of Navy.
Mas. Ralph D. Cleveland and Miss Phyllis Cleveland of New York, for Hongkong by the str. Empress arrived by the str. President Wilson of Cal la on October 17. }to spend the winter ith Mrs. Clement J. Smith, of 133 Avenue ReAR-ADMIRAL John Ewen!
Haig, who is the daughter of Mrs. Cameron, CB, M.¥.0,, who will Cleveland. succeed Rear-Admiral' D. Murray 'Anderson as Rear-Admiral anc News has been received from Senior Naval Officer on the Yany-Oslo that Mr. N. Aall, Consultze, China, will arrive in Shanghai General for Norway in ' Shangha', the P. & 0. 8. Malwa on October was married at. the end of, September, at Oslo, to Miss Cis. Heidenreich. They are expected to Tue Rev. A. N. Rowland's "many arrive in Shanghai by the Blue friends will be interested to heat Funnel str. Patroclus, that he spoke recently on the "Problem of China" at Park Chai Crouch End, his father's old church. Mr. Rowland has also Banon Matsui, the newly appoint-_ ed Japanese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and Ambassad-preached at Highgate and at his former church, Broughton Manchester, and has been ily welcomed by old friends. or Hioki, Japanese delegate to the Tariff Conference, were on the morning of the 10th received in audience by Her Majesty the Empress in the Kirinoma Hall—E:
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A. that Mr, Carlos Tavares, son of Mr. J. Tavares has been admitted as a "Junior" ie. a third year University student, after a successful entrance examination Mr. Tavares:
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