Vu Yuen Road held their annual sports meeting on last Friday. Fa. youred by beautiful weather, it was a most enjoyable after-The organization was Tong program-put through" with despatch and smoothness and the contests were very keen. The whole meeting breathed 2 good, sporting feeling and some of the events were quite thrilli the flag race. The high jumping was very pretty to watch. An excellent tea was provided for the guests, for which all the cakes and potted meat had been made by girls of the Domestic Science section of the school, who deserve great credit for their skill.
At the end of the afternoon Br. A.C. Clear, President of St.
George's Society, presented the St. George's Society scholarship to Lilian Glanville, aswell as the Local Success on the Turf Shanghai lost another of its well-known residents on Tuesday when Mr. S.A. Seth, head of the firm of Seth, Mancell & McLure, left for Australia, Tt has been well-known for some time that Mr. Seth intended to retire from Shi his going comes ay a the greatest regret to friends and associates in business.
Mr. Seth's connexion with the Far East is no slight one, for his father, Mr, A. Seth, £s.0., was Registrar of the Supreme Court in A very great deal of specially important work hay been carried out by this firm, and especial men= tion may perhaps be made of the fact that they hold the appointment of court accountants for the Mixed Court, which practically carries with it the post of official court receivers. In connexion with the Mixed Court it is worthy of mention that one piece of work which Mr. Seth undertook lasted for five years, this arising out of the litigation following the death of 2 former compradore of the Hong-
Hongkong, and for a time Mr.
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The ease A. Seth was also connected with that institution, holding the positions of, JSecond Clerk of Court and also Clerk to the Registrar. Whi tthe Colony he was an anth volunteer, and it is interesti mention that he was one of the contingent from China which went, Home to take part in the cele-had been going on for something 15 years, and after Mr. Seth was appointed to administer the estate another five year' work w entailed. As a consequence of his ability and great patience, he then succeeded in bringing the matter toa satisfactory issue,
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