Another well known resident, whom her numerous friends have for some weeks past been vying with each other to entertain at farewell luncheons and teas, is Mrs, Jenner Hogg. She also sailed on Tuesday for England by the Kashgar in company with her son and daughter, Mr. H. F. Bell and Mrs. Percy Lavers, and her granddaughter Miss Doris Lavers, severing her connexion with the Far East after a residence of some 54 years.
It was in 1867 that Miss Smith, as she then was, came to Shanghai, she and her sister being the only unmarried girls at the time in the place and neither of them, we believe, surviving as such for more than a few wacks. Mrs. Hogg married first Mr. F. H. Bell, of the firm of Adamson, Bell & Ca., a well known athlete of those days. They had six children, of whom, besides those mentioned above, Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Bell, p-s.0., and Mirs. Leefe are well known in China. After Mr. Bell's death she married, in 1898, the late Mr. Edward Jenner Hogg, who died a year ago.
No lady has been better known in Shanghai as an ideal hostess and one of keen zest for every interest of the community than Mrs. Jenner Hogg. The great days of "Unkaza," to which every traveller of importance gravitated as a matter of course, were something that those who enjoyed them will never forget. There is nothing like them' now, nor, perhaps, in the changed conditions of Shanghai can there ever be again. They belonged to a more spacious and leisurely age, in which Mrs. Hogg was eminently fitted to move, to dispense a wide hospitality. making all alike at home and happy. OF late years she has lived more in retirement, though surrounded by a wide circles of friends, and! as always keenly interested in the life of the town she has known so long. Now that at last she leaves it, she is followed by sincere re-areas and the best of wishes that she may live to enjoy many years of happiness in England.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.