Bas, F. W. Maze, wife of the Commissioner of Customs, left Shanghai on Saturday on a short visit to Australia, Ins. S. Langkjaer, the Danish Consul-General, is sqon to leave Shanghai on holiday, Sin Frederick Whyte, who has been in Shanghai for the past fortnight, has left for the north on a visit to Tientsin and Peking.
Ma, Thomas Richards, former pastor of Union Church, Tientain, has resigned his temporary appoint ment as assistant master at the Grammar School there.
Tue engagement is announced between John Johnston. French, of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, and Eleanor Mary, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
McCallum, of 66 Campden Hill-Court, Kensington, W8.
'THe announcement published to-day of the death of the Hon. Thomas Butler, "father" of the House of, Repzesentatives, has a melancholy' interest for many in China. He was the father of Major-General Smedley Butler who commands the American Forces in this country and who is very well known in Shanghai, Tur Portuguese Legation in Peking has received word from Rerlin that M. Jose Batalha de Freitas, Portuguese Minister t) Geriaany, has died in the German capital, at the age of 61 years. M, de Freitas, was Dean of the Diglomatie Carrs Peking from 1921-23. He came China in 1913. He was transferred to Brussels in 1923, and afterwards became Minister Berlin, Wono has been received in Peking from Paris of the engagement of Miss Elvira Filandino to. Dr.
Robert Cormack. Both Miss Filandino and Dr. Cormack were well known residents in the capital year ago, having both been attached to the P. U, M. C. Dr. Cormack is the eldest' son of Dr. and Mrs, J. G. Cormack who left here last June to return to their home in Scotland. "Miss Filandino is at pre sent working in the American Hospital in Paris, Tne Rev. G. W. Sheppard, the British & Foreign Bible Society's secretary for China, recently arrived in England, having travelled from Shanghai across Canada where he addressed a number of representative meetings on behalf of the Society. It was his intention to speak ut the annual meeting of the Society in Queen's Hall at the beginnings of May at which the Minister had promised to bbe Preside. Mr.
Sheppard will be on furlough until the autumn.
AowimaL Mark L, Bristol, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Squadron, is visiting Peking. He called on Mr. Lo Wen-kan, Peking's Foreign Minister, on Saturday, says the "Shunpao'
A MARRIAGE has been arranged, and will take place on June 20, between Trevor Sidney Powell, Asiatic Petroleum Ca. (North China,) and Joan, second daughter of the late Mr. W. Douglas, of The School, Malvern Link, and Mrs. Douglas, of Curraghvoe, Camberley, Surrey.
Tue marriage of Major Richard Brougham Denny, Somerset LiL, (Ret), late Assistant Military Attache, Peking, and Sybil Nina, daughter of the late Mr. F, N. Evans-Freke, barrister-at-law, and of Mrs, Saunders, of 80, Philbeach Gardens, 8.W., took place on April 21, at St, Paul's, Knightsbridge.
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