Passing of the Hongkong Magnate: Sixty-two Years in the Colony Hongkong, May 27.
The death is announced of Sir Paul Catchick Chater, Kt. ¢M.c., at the sen of #8. of respect to the late Sit Paal Chater the Stock Exchange and the Sharebrokers Association and Bullion Brokers Exchange closed this afterroon—Recter.
There had been some anxiety as to Sir Paul's state of health for three or four months past, but his condition did not become really serious until neuritis set in and it is presumed amongst his more intimate friends here that it was that complaint which caused his death.
Sir Catchick Paul Chater's career was in every way a modern romance, for he rose from a poor boy to be the financial king of the Colony, its greatest landowner, one of its! most generous benefactors, a leader:
its administration, and' probably. one of the six best known men in all China, with a reputation that countries. He was born in Calcutta on September 8, 1846, the son of Mr. Chater Paul Chater. He arrived in Hongkong in April, 1864, and his connexion with the Colony since then has been unbroken,
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