Mx. F. Taiel, the German Con-1 sal-General, has returned to Shanghai from his vacation.
Dr, and Mrs, A. B. Oks have left fo Europe on a holiday trip.
SaTurpay was the birthday of Confucius. The event was celebrated in Mr. G. C, Newman returned to Shanghai on board the str. Trier. fitting fashion in local educational and official circles.
Dr. F. L. Hewks Pott, Px. D., president of St. John's University, has returned to Shanghei from his holiday at Home.
Mrs. J. Lolos left for Tientsin on Monday by the str, Tingsang, and is likely to be absent from Shanghai for several months.
His friends will learn with re-of the sudden death at Viadivostock of Capt. 0. Micich, Commander of the Lloyd Triestino str. Fiume I, Mr, J. Lilliehook, the Swedish Consul-General, has resumed his! duties Mr. Lillichook has been from Shanghai for a few Miss A. A. Matthais returned from America on September 27 to join the staff of the Pacific Trading Mz, John Mortimer Rest, president of the Elite Travel Bureau, jand "Mrs, Root are at present staying at the Astor House Hotel."
'MARSHAL Tsao Kun is reported to have arrived at Huchowful on his way to Shanghai. When he will arrive here is not yet known.
Shanghai for London on Thursday, 'AMONG the passengers leavin
by the Taiyo Maru were Mr. and Wilson, Mrs, W. E. Wilson and Miss Phyllis Mr. G. W. King, 0.8.8, Registrar M, Supreme Court, left on Wednesday by the str. Shuntien for chefoo where yp will spend a short holiday. industrial conditions'on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and' Commerce.
Dr. and Mrs, Birt, accompanied two Misses Stephen, Mrs, Birt's daughters, returned to Shanghai at the close of last week and are living in their bouge in Vu Yuen Carr. J. Johnstone, Roy: Marines, who arrived in Shanghai recently, has taken over the-duties of, British Naval Staff Officer at H.
Consulate-General, vice Capt. R. A. Glunicke, Royal Marines, who is leaving for Home.
Comnave Leon Karakhan, former Ambassador to China, who passed through Shanghai a week ago en route to Vindivostock, arrived in that port on October I' and left for Moscow on October 2.
SHOULD war conditions in central THE marriage of Miss Maire China be restored to a more normal Antoinette. S. de" Becker, elder state and the city. of Wu' daughter of Mr. J. B, de Becker of relieved, the and Dr. Robert Hadeesak, Rev.
Bishop L. H. Roots, p.p,, Bishop ' professor of the Osuka Medici of Central China, will come to University, was solemnized at all Shanghai during the next" few Saints' Church, Kobe, on Saturday. days, Mr. Stephen A. Stimson, general agent in Japan of the Dollar and Admiral Oriental Steamship Lines, and Mrs. Stimson, left for Home by the str. President Taft on Sunday. Mr. T. B, Wilson, the Manila agent, will be in charge of the Dollar interests in Japan during Mr. Stimson's absence la the United States, HoNGKONG is shortly to have 4 distinguished visitor in the person of John Alison, M.A, Lid, F.R8.£,, who recently retired from the Headmastership of George Watwon's College, Edinburgh. He is at. pri sent on a world tour of Watsonian Clubs and is due there on November 22.
TneRe has been added to the list of Hongkong Medical practitioners! the name of Dr. Jamshed Sorab Guzda, of the Hongkong Government Civil "Hospital. Dr. Guzda is Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of the University of Hongkong, and was formerly a pupil of the Thomas Hanbury School in Shanghai, where he is well known, Tue Rt, Rev. A, A. Gilman, D.p., Suffragan Bishop in Cen: and president of the Central China University, is due here during the next few days. He is to leave for the United States on the str. President Jackson on the 11th instant. During his absence Dr. Francis 'C, M. Wei will be in charge of the university.
'THE sympathy of their many friends throughout the Far Eas! will go to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest 'Matteson, of Hongkong, in tae loss lof their 16-months old' daughter, Joyce Susan Matteson, who died in, California on September 6, Mr. Mat-tosan is the General-Agent for the Dollar and Admiral-Oriental Lines Hongkong, and left there with hi family on Home leave in April of this year.
Mas. F. A. Smalley, who met with a serious accident at the wharf while passing through to Tokyo from Nanking by the Nagasaki Mara on the 14th instant, is mab The injured leg and been taken out of splints and minor cuts and bruises! have healed or disappeared; the other hand, the bones of which' were! broken, will not be of service for! some few weeks and a cut on the ower part of the face has not yet healed. Considering that the lady, was hurled from the ship's deck to the wharf, or the wooden fender which runs around it, and bounced from there into the water, her progress to recovery hax hen com-Paratively rapid.
Tae American Consulate-Geneval is interested in securing information to the whereabouts of Mr. Glenn Mason formerly of Vallejo, Califorwho is believed to be in Shang-'Any particulars concerning his present whereabouts will be ap= preciated.
AN interesting wedding took place at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, few days ago (writes our own cor respondent) when Miss Ruby Mary [Kong, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kong, of Sydney, Australia, became the wife of Mr. Henry Ching, of Mackay, Queensland." Mr. Ching is acting' editor of the "South-China Morning Post". The Rev. H. Copley Moyle officiated, whilst Mr. Ng Sze-kwong of lawn tennis fame was best man, The same afternoon the couple left for Shanghai for their honeymoon. They: are at present stopping at the Palace Hotel, Captain L. W. Braithwaite, c.16., hag been selected for the command of H.M.S. Hawkins flagship of the 'China Station, which appointment also carries with it the duties of Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief of the Station. Captain Braithwaite joined the Navy in July, 1892 and was promoted captain in' Dec. 1917. He is no stranger to the China Station. He was here in 1900 the cruiser with the naval brigade landed for the advance on Peking, in the course of which he was severely wounded. He received the medal with d In the late War he saw much service and commander of the cruiser Cumber-Jand when it broke out. With that ship he was in various affairs on the Africa Station and in the 'Mediterranean and later in the North. Sea. He was mentioned in despatches for his services in the Cam-croons, 1914-10, and received the ome.' Captain Braithwaite tales the place of Captain W. J. C, Lake. who has been flag captain and chief of staff since Oct. 1924.
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