Another Tink with the old days the Far East has been severed by: he death, reported from Hyeres, the French winter resort, of Mr. Crawford Davison Kerr. It is a good many years since Mr. Kerr left the East, but he will be membered by' the older generation of China hands, especially for his keen interest in the Volunteer move-other wax also of the same name ind was "chairman of Lloyd's very many years ago. Crawford was practically the founder of the Country Club at Shanghai, and it was through him that the Council acquired the land for what is now "hongkew Park. Under a private Jarrangement with J. 1. Scott, who }was then Chairman of the Council, bought the whole of the Parl small lots from the native o ers, through a well-known mainan called A Kew, at very moilest prices—two to three thousand taels per mow—at a time when it would have been quite impossible for the Council to buy it at' all if it chad been known that they ere in the market. Of course he did all this work gratuitously. He alcohol drinks wil be ced Whitgob, librarian, and Messrs. L. married Mrs. Kerr 68 years ago last
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