Mr. R. A. Hall, of the consular service has left for Home on leave.
'THE numerous friends of M. M. J.
Clear of the Banque de I'Indo-Chine will be interested to learn that ho has been promoted to be submanager of the Shanghai branch of the bank.
'THe following student interpreters, having passed the second year's examination at Peking, are being detailed as Vice-Consuls: Mr. J. P. Price, Nanking, Mr. J. Dunlop, Shanghai, and Mr. R. H. Scott, Peking.
Mr, C. F. Garstin, will leave for Harbin on February 10 to take up new appointment as H. M. Consul-General for Harbin. Mr. J.
F. Brenan, the new—Consul-General for Shanghai, is due to arrive here on February 4.
'THE engagement. is announced between Mr. F. W. Grove, The Wiltshire Regiment, only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. U. Grove of East Kennett, Marlborough, and Dorothy, only daughter of the late Francis Ellis, of Shanghai, and Mrs. Ell of Shanghai.
IN recognition of great services ridered in the interests of Japan's ternational telegraph. communications, Captain J. J. Bahnson, General Manager in the Far East of the Great Northern Telegraph Company, has been made a Commander of the Ist class of the Japanese - Order of the Sacred Treasure by H.LM. the Japanese Emperor.
News has been received from Home of distinctions won by two sons of Sir Frantis Aglea, former ly Inspector-General_ of Customs. Mr, Edward Francis Aglen, a graduate of. Magdalen College, Oxford; is one of 12 candidates selected for appointment to the Sudan Political Service. His younger brother, Mr. Anthony Joha Aglen, Marlborough College, has been, awarded an entrance scholarship of £100 for Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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