Mx, H. E. Morriss left on Monday for Home by the str. Empress -of Canada.
Ma. and Mrs. E. B, Gregory and children left for America on Monday on the str, Empress of Canada.
Mas. P. H. Dunbar and children' left for America on Monday.. Mr. Dunbar will follow later.
Mr. C. W. E. Bishop, the left-back of the Hongkong Football. Club, is leaving Hongkong early next' month.
Mansi Sun Chuan-fang, Tupar. of Kiangsu and Chekiang, will celebrate his birthday on April 14.
Mr, and Mrs, Charles Lavers and their two sons, left for America on Sunday. Their return is uncer-
Tue forthcoming wedding is announced in Hongkong of Mr. Will iam Henry Smith, of Shanghai, to Miss Pearle Durham, of Westera Australia.
Tue forthcoming wedding is announced in Hongkong of Mr. George Ivan Cope, civil engineer of the Shanghai Waterworks Ca., Ld., to] Mrs. Annie Bradford of London.
Mr. G. E, Osland-Hill, Postal]
Commissioner at Canton, sailed for Home by the Empress of Canada, accompanied by his wife ani daughter.
Cact. R. A. R. Neville, Royal Marines, who was aide-de-camp to Sir Edward Stubbs in Hongkong, has been appointed private secretary to the Governor of Ceylon.
Mr. Rodenfuser, the Hongkong agent of the Messageries Maritimes, left on Home leave by the str. Porthos, Mr. Lo Gallen, vice-president of the Messageries Maritimes, arrived from Shanghai in the same vessel.
Bric, Gen. Thomas Q. Donaldson announced the engagement of Colonel Earl Tanner, commanding officer of the 45th infantry, at Fort McKinley, Manila, and Miss Eleanor Griffin, at the regimental dinner held at the Army and Navy Club recently.
Tue many friends of Miss Frarces McEuen will regret to th) learn that she has been taken to the General Hospital, pending an operation for appendicitis. Miss MeEuen is the niece of Mr. K. J. McEuen, late Commissioner Police.
'THz American Coneulate-General is interested in securing information as to the whereabouts of Mr. Victor Rusnak, who has been in Shanghai for more than one year. It is believed that Mr, Rusnak was A Reuter telegram from London of March 20 says:—"His Majesty to-day received Rear-Admiral David Anderson: on his relinquishing the appointment of Rear-Admiral and Senior Naval Officer on the Yangtze."
Avren having occupied for 22 years the chair of the New Testament at Meiji Gakuin, Dr. A, Oltmans is to retire next month.
V. E, Stegeman, now in Ame n furlough, is to arrive in Tokyo April 15 to succeed Dr. Oltmans.
Mu, Marcel Goldschmidt, formerly manager of the Tientsin branch of Messrs. J. Uhlmann & Ca., arrived in Hongkong by the str." Porthos to take over from the local maas ager of Uhimann's, Mr.
L.. Watch 3 who is going to France on leave at the end of the month, on his way to Siberia, A RECEPTION in honour of Mr. Kato Katsusuke, the oldest lawyer in Kobe, was held'at the Mikado Restaurant in the Kenkai Gijido on the 12th instant, Mr. Kato is 84 years old and is still attending his professional—duties at the Kobe and Osaka Courts. He started in his profession in 187
Mrs. A. Bradford, Mr. J. H. Candy, Mr. and Mrs, D. H. Farrar, Mr. and Mrs. H. 1'. Fulbrooke, the Misses Pulbrooke Mr. and Mrs. A.
Hinchliffe, Mr. C. Pain, Mr. Chas. M. Poole, Lt.-Col. and Mrs. Spencer,, Mr. C. L. Sandes, and Mr. H. Spicer arrived in Hongkong by the str, Devanho.
Mus, J. Ie MePherson, of Hong!
Ma, Li Shih-hsun, Kiangsu Commissioner of Finance, has come to Shanghai to confer with local bankers on questions of provincial finance. 'The Nanking mint, he is reported to have said, will begin operations on April 1,"and a fresh supply of subsidiary' silver coins will be minted for circulation kong, has been exhibiting atthe Chester Gallery, London, drawing of Hongkong and-Canton, done pen Hine and grey wash, with the tones enriched by pen work. "The Times" remarks that "her work shows real imagination, a sense of the strangeness of junks and of Chinese rehitectur Ma. D, H. M. D'Orsey of the of India, Australia after having been Japan for' seven years returned home on furlough for eight months, fon the Empress of Asia. Mr. D'Orsey is a popular Kobe resident and had connexion with several Institutions here, being Vice-Pre sident of the British War Veterans'
Association of Kobe and Hon. Treas. the Kobe $.P.C.A.
Miss Mary Agnes Murphy, who has been a member of the managerial staff of the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, for two years and 2 half, jeff Yokohama by the str. Fu shimi Maru bound for Europe. Miss Murphy does not expect to return to Japan, Miss Murphy probably resume her duties with the Waldorf Astoria in New York but for the present her plans are indefinite.
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