Mr. A. A. Owing, Shanghai mar ger of the Shanghai Electric Construction Ca, together with Mrs. Owing, returned to Shangha} last Ma, Louis Drakeford, of the Salt Gabelle, who has been for some months in Shanghai, left for his, post at Chungking' on Saturday night, Mus. F, E. Chadwick Kew, manageress of the British Flower Shop, with her daughter, returned to Shanghai on Saturday, after ix months' holiday Tue Rev, E. F, and Mrs, Horst mith are due back on Noverabec 18, On Wednesday evening, November 23, at 6 o'clock, there will be a reception in their honour, in the: Union Charch Hall, Mu, H. J. Brett, H, M. Commercial Counsellor, who, since "his return from a eoramercial tour of inspec-up"the Yangtze on October 1, has been confined to hospital, left for chort holiday at Weihaiwei ta Saturday, A Royar, Marine officer, Major!
Wright, seems to be the; champion linguist of the Navy. He} a qualified interpreter in Danish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Major Wright joined the Royal Marines when he was 18, and now is at Nanking, where no doubt he is making efforts to learn Chinese, Mrs, H, E, Peck and daughter re-{turned from Home on Saturday in the str, Hakozaki Maru, Tux wife and family of Mr, Lockhart, the American Consuk-General at Hankow, arrived Shanghai on the str. President Grant, Tue Rev, H. J, Bowden, lately of the Church Missionary Society in Western China, has been appointed to the vicarage of Christ Church, Lower Birling.
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