HRM, Prince George was aboard 'HAMS. Bee when she left Shangh: on Tuesday for a visit to Yangtze ports.
Larur-Coitmor. J. S. Bothell has! been appointed to MINS. Titania! for command of a submarine, Mansnat Feng Vu-hsiang has had conferred upon him bythe Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, says the Chinese progs.
Ma. H, von Heidenstam, Engineer. jin-Chief of the Whangpoo Conser-fancy Board, left Shanghai on June by the Sakaki Maru, for six months special leave.
BIN, M. J. Kruming, president of the National Export Advertiging Service, Inc., of New York, is in Shanghai in the interests of his company.
Mr, K. J. McEuen returned to Shanghai on Monday after a holl-day in Japan, 'THe name of Dr. John Durran, Alexandra Building, Bachelor of Surgery, of the University of Edin burg, has been added to the list of medical practitioners of Hongkong.
Lieutenant E. A. A. Gibbon, WINS, Hermes "and Bare jone Duco "Kiddle, of Amberley, Stroud, were to be married early this month at Malta, Tue engagement is announced of Miss Mabel. Bourke, daughter of Superintendent and Mrg. Bourke, to Mr. William Rutley Mowll, of Messrs. Reuter's, Ld,, Shang!
Diaxorr, a well-known Russian explorer of the interior of nounces that he is shortly Janother research investigation in inner Asi Gen. Li Ching-lin, former Tupan of Chili, who was mainly respongible for the defeat of the Kuomin chun, is reported by the Chinese! press to be seriously ill with tuber-
'THe Danish Consul-General and Mrs. 8, Langkjaer will be at home to members of the Danish community in Shanghai and their friends on Jame 15 from 4 p.m, AmcnarrsMan Henry F. Mills was bit by the revolving propeller of an aeroplane while walking along the deck of H. M. aircraft-carrier: Hermes at Malta, and was killed.
AcriNc on instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Governor of Hongkong has recognized Mr. John J, Muccio as u Vice-Consul for the United States in Hongkong.
We understand that Dr, Wang. Chung-hui, the well-known Chinese Jurist, who is Chinese judge in the International Court of Justice at The Hague, will be appointed to the post of Minister of Education, a ost which he has held once before.
Aenican Women's Club members who are leaving Shanghai for the summer include Birs, T. C. McConnell who left for ion for a visit on Thursday and Mrs. S. [Clements who will leave on Thursday for Mokanshan.
Ma, Charles L, De Vault, U.S. Consul at Taihoku, Japan, arrived in Shanghai on Monday abroad the Nagasaki Maru and is stopping for about a fortnight at the Astor Tue wedding took place Hongkong last week of Mr. Willi Kearley Reynolds, Acting Registr of Hongkoag University, to Mi: Lal Muriel Hutton, bride Axionc the passengers aboard the President Lincoln on Tuesday were Mr. Mason Turner, American Vice. his: Marjorie Turner, who Consul at Colombo, accompanied by"
iting him for several months.
Mr. Turner will spend 1 few months in his home in Connecticut U.S. A.
Dr. V. K. Ting, Director of the Shanghai and Woosung Speci Municipality, returned to Shan, Monday night from Nanking for conferring with the Tupan, Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, on im portant matters ing to the special administrative anet Dr. C. C. Wu (Wu Chao-chu), son of the late Dr. Wu Ting-fang and Mayor of Canton, arrived in Shanghai on Monday' by the str. President Lincoln with Mr. Foo Ping-shering, sand Superintendent Canton, Dr, Wu, who formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs in Canton, appears nother victim of the extremist party, which has already arrested out Wu Teh-chen, the former chief of police and leader of the moderates. and Mrs, John Reynolds of Wisbee! Cambs, England, and the brid the daughter of the late Mr, James Colin Hutton and of Mrs, Hutton, of Melbourne, Australia, The Rev.
Copley Moyle officiated.
Mu, A. Richie, of Messrs, Lowe, Bingham & Mathews, while on th voyage home, on holiday, sustained serious injury to his head in diving into a swimming bath on the Patroclus. It was thought that it might be necessary to land him at Colombo for treatment in hospital, but, happily, that was not found to be necessary, and news by an carly mail of his complete recovery from the accident will be eagerly awaited by his many friends Miss Soumi Cheng, 11. D,, (Paris) barrister-at-law, has the honour of being the firt Chinese lady admitted to practice law in Shanghai, matter of fact, i Chinese lady to abt the French Cheng has been admitted to practice in the various courts here. Of course, several foreign ladies have been admitted to the bar here, but Miss Cheng is the first Chinese lady.
Pay-Lr-Com. R. E, Worthing ton, 08.0, M, was married to Miss Primrose Grace at Sherborne Abbey, Dorset, on April 28. Lt-'Com. Worthington was secretary to Commodore "HE, Grace (now Rear-Admiral) during the latter's stay in Hongkong. He was one of tthe bess tennis players in the Colony and is now singles champion of and Marines, Mi 'a grand-daughter of of cricket fame.
A sad motor-cycle accident occurred on the Tientsin Race Course on May 28, resulting in the death two days later of Mr, Loy Accu the 18 year old son of Captain a Mrs, Accurti, of -Tientsin. When the accident occurred it-sozins that the deceased was coming in. the direction of the city, and, as he made a turn at Willow Place, his machine skidded and threw him to the ground. "His head' struck the pavement while his: foot caught in ithe framework of the machine, which went on for another 20 feet before stopping.
Tur older residents of Hongkong regret to learn that Indy Blake, widow of Sir Henry Arthur Blake, Gom.c, died at her residence, Myrtle' Grove, Youghal, Ca. Cork, fon April 18. The eldest daughter and ce-heir of the late Ralph Bernal-Osborne, M.P., and sister of the Duchess of St." Albans, Lady Blake married Sir Henry Blake as is second wife in 1874, when ho was a resident magistrate in Ireland. She went him to bahamas in 1884, he having been appointed Governor of that Colony. Later she accompanied her husband to Newfoundland, Jamaica and Hongkong. In. the last-named Colony he was Governor from 1897 to 1903, and there Lady Blake found much to interest her in the coal flora and fauna which she made a special hobby. Sir Henry went to Ceylon as Governor in 1903, and retiring in 1907 went with Lady. Blake to Myrtle Grove; Youghal, Ca. Cork, which they made their home and inthe grounds of which Sir Henry Blake was intetred some years ago. Lady Blake fas ow been laid beside bia
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