News has been received in Shanghai of the death of Captain Binns. who passed away at Westfield, Boulton-lo-Fylde, Lancashire, on May 93. Captain Binns was for many years a much i respected member of the shipping community here. He put in a good ideal of service on the China Coast, on vessels of the China i Navigation Ca., and the Indo-China S. N. Ca., and latterly was jin the employ of Messrs. Geo. McBain, retiring some eight years ago. Captain Binns was well known in Masonic circles, being la member of the Cosmopolitan Lodge and Rising Sun Chapter, both of the Scottish constitution, and his death will be regretted by friends in many parts of China.
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