Farmer's Wife Badly Wounded It is not only in Hongkong that Me. Ede's passiety will be mourned, but in Shanghai and the other large ports of the Far East as well. He came out in the eighties for the Union Insurance Society of Canton, and after experience in various ports spent a number of years in Shanghai. He took a prominent part in the public life of the Settle. ment, and served on the Municipal Council. One of the most striking pieces of work he did while here was the organization of a famine relief fund in the nineties, contributing greatly to a deserving object which at that time called for the raising. of a considerable amount of money.
In 1908, when he left Shanghai for Hongkong, Mr. Ede became head of the Union Insurance Society and held this position irement last year. During these years a great strengthening and expansion of the Union of Canton was seen. Following pon other absorptions, the North China Insurance Company was amalgamated with the Union' of Canton, and the same process has gone on since, the latest com-Fany to join forces with it being: the "Yangtsze Insurance Associa-
While in Hongkong Br, Ede took fan active part in the public life of the Colony, being at one time fon the Council there, while he was diveetor of the Hongkong Shanghai Hotels at the time of his Geath, Latterly he had taken an active interest in the welfare of the industrial workers of Hong Kong, and had prepared a project looking after their housing and welfare on a scale which other people had not visualized. Tr was jan ambitions scheme, involving toe expenditure of some two millions of dollars.
Mr. Ede is survived by his widow, a son and daughter, while there are several grandchildren.
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