Ma. and Mra, H. N. Steptoe have arrived in Shanghai and are staying at the Palace Hotel.
Adtonast the passengers who left on the str. President Lincoln on Saturday were Mr. and Mrs, H, W. Lester, Mr. J' W. 0. Davidson, Assistant] Chinese Secretary to the British Legation and Mr. Sterndale Bennett, Secretary of the British Legation, who made the journey from Peking with HM. Minister, Sir Miles Lampson, are guests of the Astor House Hotel.
Anna Louise Strong; a press correspondent, arrived in Shanghai by the str. President Madison, on behalf of the McClure Syndicate, Ma, Julean Arnold, the American Connnereial Attache, has returned to Shanghai after a three weeks visit to North China and Manchuria.
M. R. Tulasne, French Viee-Consul and Assessor at the French Mixed Court, sailed for France on home leave on Saturday by the str. "Athos.
AWONG the passengers recently ce ing Hongkong was Mr. W. Pattenden, manager of the _wel Axnown firm of Loxley & Ca, and a director of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, 'THE Consul-General for Sweden Mr. J. Lilichook, left Shanghai: on Monday on four months' home eave. The Vice-Consul, Inv. Exik Wisen, has been appointed acting' Consul-General and Consular Judge.
Pror. Hu Shih, dean of the department of philosophy in the Peking National University, who returned from Europe on Saturday, left for Hangchow on Tuesday. Dr. Hu is a leading Chinese author and founder of the renaissance movement. Whi abroad, Dr. Hu delivered" many lectures, some of which were reproduced in these colunins. a committee meeting on Sunday} on behalf of the Shanghai Ladies' Golf Dah, the Captain, Mrs. E. W. P.-Mills, handed to Mrs, Ferrier, on the occasion of her leaving Shanghai, a silver cigarette box as a token of appreciation of good work as Hon. Secretary during the past two years. Mts, Ferrier takes this opportunity of thanking: all those subscribers to is pleasant souvenir, whom she is uunable to see personally, Tue death has occurred, at Taun. ton, of Vice-Admiral Judge D'Arc M, retired, we saw much service on foreign stations, particularly China, He entered' the Taw Rev. GR, Lindsay, who ro-cently retired from the post of Vicar of St. Andrew's, Kowloon, has been-appointed by the Trustees. to the vicarage of St. Saviour, Everton Liverpool. Mr, Lindsay filled two feuracies in Liverpool before coming to Chinn, 1881 and went out to El years later in the corvette Sapphire. He afterwards saw further service in China in the gunboat Cockchafer. Specializing in the _navigating branch, he served as navigator of ship on the China several ships, including the battle-Vengeance, Sts A perry wedding of much inter-in Naval and Military circles took place at St. John's Cathedral Hongkong, recently. Tke bride Miss Novah Eleanor Lynch, daugh-tar of Major J. P. Lynch, RAatc, and Mrs, Lynch, and the bridegroom was Lieut. Ronald William Keymer, of HLM, S. Titania, HoNoKoNG papers state that the engagement is announced In London Between Paymaster _Lieat-Comd F, JuLloyd, rix, and Florence Mah waring, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Hoyland, of Parkin House, Penistone, Yorkihive,—Lt=Comdr. Lloyd has recently been appointed to. HLM.S. Bec, flagship of the Yangtze Plotilia, THe P. & 0, 8, Morea sailed for London and intere ports, on Yuesday, with a full passenger Ast, including Mr, and Mve. C. HI 'Mrs, Perrier, Me. and Mrs, P. Gum, Mr, W. L. Gerrard, Mr, and Mrs,' J, '1. "Hunter, Mr, WR. Lemarchand, Mrs. C, A. Member and; Mr. G. B, C! Newsum, Mu. H, 8. Lee, cat, Cornell University, U.S.A., has been appointed Acting managing director of the Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway Adtration by the Board of Comet the Nationalist int at Nanking. He formal-his post on. Monday been coun-
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