Dent will take over the secretary-of the Foreign Silk Association, Ma. W. W. Monk, of the Sheng-Waterworks, left last Friday for ix months" holiday, most of which he proposes to spend in Ins. Vu Ya-ching, former Chairman of the Ohinese General Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Yuan Li-tung, the present Vice-Chairman of the Chamber, left for Ningpo on Monday.
Ma. E. M. Gull sailed in the str. Morea on Tuesday for Hongkong, and Canton, where Mrs. Gull, who is leaving Shanghai on Saturday morning by the str. Patroclus, will Join him en route for London,
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