Service and Custodian of China's domestic loans, is going on two months leave, says the Chinese press. He probably needs it.
'Among the passengers who arrived in' Shanghai aboard the str.' President Cleveland were Capt. and Mrs. Carl Rydell, who are touring ithe Orient after having spent some time in Manila and Hawaii.
Amonc the passengers who lete 'Shanghai by the P. & 0. S. Mantua were the Rev. I. D. Ross, Mrs. Ross and their two children.' They are travelling to Australia from Wuchang, and expect to be away from China for about 12 months.
Me. D.G.M. Bernard, head of Jardine, Matheson and Ca, Ld. in the Far East, arrived in Shanghai by the President Cleveland on Tuesday for a short visit. We learn from' our Hongkong correspondent that} Mr. Bernard was recently appointed to the Hongkong Legislative Council as the representative of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce Prince Chichibu, second son of the Japanese Emperor, who is studying in England' and expected to spend another year' in' that country, to is join of the guards to study military organization in Britain, according to reports in the Japanese newspapers. Prince: Chichibu sailed for England just tone year ago. He is expected to return to Tokyo in the fall of 1927 by way of America.
Mu. Chun Bing-him, compradore of Messrs, A, R. Burkill & Sons and managing director of the Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Ca., 1d., has been elected first chairman of the newly-formed Chapei_ Chamber of Comnierce, and Col. Wang Ping-ven, director of the Chapei Merchant Protectionary and Volunteer Forces, to the vice-chairmanship. Owing to pressure of business, however, they decline to accept the posts.
Mrs. June Hamilton Rhodes, who will be remembered as the Mat lof the Dennishawn company, in Shanghai over the week-e is stopping at the Plaza Hotel until her departure on July 2 for Amer-where she will make arrangements for the winter Dennishawn season in the States. Mrs. Rhodes the famous com until they return to Shang series of dances early in November.
Anroxe the long list of American missionaries who left on board the str. Coblenz on Wednesday for fur-Tough, preferring to zo middle class through Suez rather than first class across the Pacific, were Dr. and Mrs. J. C. MeCracken ang their six children, Dr. and Mes. W. W. Peter and three children, Dr. and Mrs. Schmalzried, Rev. and Mrs. MacRae and six children, Mr. Bert! B. Hansen of the American School, Mr. and Mrs, Schilman, Dr. and Mrs. F. F. Tucker, Dr. and Mrs. Hemingway and two children, Mr. land Mrs. A. C. Owens, Miss Corriher and Miss Overall, Miss A.
Darrow, and Mr. J. L. Coe, Arran 49 years of active business life in the Far East, partly spent in Shanghai but principally in Hongkong, Mr. C.J. Lafrentz of the Hongkong branch of Messrs. Galdbeck, Macgregor left the southern' colony for Home on June 10. Mr. Lafrentz, though 71 of age, has no intent having expressed. his intention of taking charge of the firm's London office. Mr. Lafrents's frst cxperience of Hongkong was in the early 40s when, after being engaged in work connected with tapioca estates:
Singapore, Malacca and Penang, went there for a short time, later proceeding to Shanghai and from there to Canton (in 1882). He remained in Canton for a quarter of a century, being engaged in the tea sand silk business, taking the Canton agency for Caldbeck, Macgregor's in 1894.
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