Sim Sidney Barton left Shanghai for Wethaiwei on the str. Tungchow on Saturday.
Mr. H. K. Peters left for the! north last Friday to spend a fortnight's holiday at Chinwangtao.
Doctor S, Furstenberg left Shanghai on Sunday morning on the str, Nagaseki Mara for Unzen.
Mu. C, B. Gardner, of the Standard Oil Ca,, left for Home on Saturday by the RMS. Empress of Asia.
Dr. James K. Westerfield has returned after 'a holiday spent at Chefoo.
Mr, R, F. C. Master left for Weihaiwei on Sunday, and will be absent from Shanghai until the end of the month.
Last Friday by the Empress of Canada Mr. Leigh Garner left for Hongkong, and expects to be away for a week or 10 days.
Dn, John R, Mott, general seeretary of the International Committee of the Y..C.A., has accepted the! presidency of the World's Alliance, organization representing no fewer than 62 countries.
Mr, A. C. Clear, general manager and engineer-in-chief of the S.N.R. and the 8. H. N. R,, returned from Weihaiwei on Sunday.
Mus. E. C. Enders, the well-known writer on Chinese subjects, left for Vancouver by the R.M.S. Empress of Asia on Saturday.
Mr, W. R. Walter and Mr. N. Denison were passengers for Weihaiwei by the str. Shuntien which left Shanghai on Wednesday.
Mr, W. J. Hawker, managing] director of the Hongkong and Shanghat Hotels, Ld., returned to Shanghai by the President McKinley on Saturday from Hongkong.
Mr, 0. G. Steen, general manager of the Robert Dollar Ca., and Mrs.! Steen, who accompanied Capt. and Mrs. Robert Dollar to Singayore,! returned to Shanghai by the str. President Lincoln, Mu. F. 0. Finn, representative in Asia for the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railway Ca, arrived in {Shanghai on Saturday from Manila, to establish his permanent head-awatters.
Tue many friends will be glad to learn that Messrs, W. J. Mercer and "Artie" Barrett, both popular members of the American Club, who have been operated on for appendix are doing well and expect to Teave hospital in a few days.
Frirnps of Mr, F. Gerale Rout-ledge, of the Chinese American Publishing Company will be pleased] to know that he is rapidly improving from an illness which has confined him to the General Hospital] for about a week.
Roan-Admiral 8, Nagano, Commander-in-Chief of the First Japanese Squadron in Chines been promoted Attache to the Japan. ese Naval General Staff and Rear-
Admiral J, Araki has been appointed to succeed him.
1H. M. the King has authorized Mtr. Norman O, Liddell, former secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Council, to wear the Fourth Class Order of the Chiaho which was conferred upon him by the President of the Chinese Republic for services rendered. the King invested Vise count Willingdon, Governor-General: of Canada, who was recently head of the British Boxer Indemnity Commission, on July 22, with the insignia of the Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael ang St. George.
Miss Lucille Douglass, formerly] of Shanghai, will visit Shanghai for 'a few days in early December on her way to Cambodia where she is, to make sketches to illustrate a travel book, After exhibitions in Bar Harbour and Newport in the late summer Miss Douglass will Ameren and come on. to me time sketching there before sailing for China.
Da. 8. D. Joffick, Director of the Clinical Diagnosis institute, left for! Peking on Tuesday morning to attend [the Conference of the China Medial Association which will be held at the Peking Union Medical College on August 31. Dr, Joffick will return Shanghai on September 11.
Mu. A. Tajima, Japanese Vice-Consul, neting Consular Judge, and Asnessor at the Mixed Court, left' for home on a month's holiday on Monday by the N.Y.K. str. Nagasaki Maru. During has absence, Mr. H. Nagaoka, Vice-Consul, will attend to Mr. Tajima's duties at the Mixed Court.
Mr. R. Longworth, the Tientsin Harbour Master, is to be transferred to Shanghai and Mr. E. B. Green, acting assistant Harbour Master in. Shanghai, will leave for Tientsin. The Shanghai Girl Guide organization should benefit by Mrs. Long. worth's arrival, as she is extremely! interested in the movement.
In view of the seriousness of the general situation in this part of the; country, Mr. Fu Sino-en, managing! director of the Commercial Bank of China, has consented to withdraw his resignation as Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Miss Georgie Mooser, well known cles in Shavighai, carried Iver cup as first prize in the Ladies' Hunter Class and another cup for winning the first prize in the first race at the recent National Capital Horse Show held at Arlington Park, Washington, D.C. Miss Mooser has spent the past year in the Bolton Arms School, Washington, and with her mother, Mrs. Low Mooser, will spend this summer in San Francisco, Of her horseman-"Washington Herald" says:
Mooser rode smoothly, naively, and confidently."
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