The news was received in Shang~ hai by telegram on Thursday after noon, of the sudden death of Mrs. Walker, wife of a former Dean of the Holy Trinity Cathedral here, Tt will come as a great shock to her many friends and acquaintances in the East, Mrs, Walker was the second Jdaughier of General Middleton of Tunbridge Wells. She frst came to China upon her marriage to. Mr. Welker, this taking: lace in Hong-ong. Mr, Walker at that time wa Head of Trinity College at Ningpo, Which position he retained until 1904 when he came to Shanghai and became Dean of Holy Trinity He was Dean, here, for 10 years and during that time Mrs. Walker much to endear herself to the yy. She was rently in the Tocal chat ities, becoming: President of the Girls' Friendly Society, and of the Foreign Womens' Home and also serving on the Committee of the Shanghai Ladi Benevolent Society, Dean Walker retired from'Shange hai in 1920, when Dean Symons, the present Dean, took his place, and he is now Vicar of Malton, Yorkshire A large gap Bott in the community by their departure.
Mrs, Walker is survived by her husband and two children, now grown-up, to whom our sympathy is extended, 'THe Chinese General Chamber of Commerce has addressed a telexvam to the Waichiaopu in Peking stating that, in view of the approaching expiration of the Sino-Belgian Commercial Treaty, it is the hope of the Chinese merchant body that the Central Government will negotiate for a new treaty with the Belgian Government on terms more equitable China as the old trouty was far from satisfactory.
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