Arrival in Shanghai with Col.
Peel and Mr. Newton: Going North on Wednesday Sir Ronald Macleay, British Minister to China, with Lady Mac-Jeay, returned to Shanghai by the (S, Empress of Canada on Sun-on their way to Peking, where his Excellency will attend the Tariff Conference as chief British delegate. The Ministerial party also included Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.
iey Peel and Mr. Basil Newton, of the Foreign Office, who are like: wise attached to the Delegation, and Mr, E. C. Mieville, of the British Legation, Peking.
Mr, Barton, H.M, Consul-General, and Mr. A.'H. George, Shipping Vice-Consul, went down' by launch to meet the Minister at Woosung where the Empress of Canada had anchored over night. On his arrival in a special tender at the Customs Jetty yesterday morning, Sir Ronald was greeted by a Presentative gathering of British officials and residents. Among those present were Judge Sir 'Skinner and Lady Turner, Rear-Admiral "D, 'Murray Anderson, on the Yangtze, Mr. H. P. Wilkinson, Crown Advocate, Mr. Hou Yuan, ' Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, Mr. J. F. Bret Consul, Mr, W.' Stark Toller, Vice-Consul, Mr. A. J. Martin and Mr, E." Whitamore, British Mixed Court Assessors, Mr. A. D. Blackburn, Vice-Constl, Mr. A. Brooke Smith, who has been appointed a ditional technical adviser to the British delegation "to the Taritt Conference, and Mr. and Mrs. G. HI. Stitt, with whom the Minister and Lady Macleay stayed while in Shanghai, Sir Ronald and Lady Macleay, accompanied by the Brit ish members to the Tariff Conferft Shanghai by the str.
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