The "Central China Post" ports*the death on February 28 of a well known resident of Hankow, Mr. Thomas Stephens, aged 79. A native of Sweden, he came out East as a boy on board a sailing ship, and then found employment: on steamers on the coast and the Yangtze. In this way he first came to Hankow in 1863, and later on he secured a post as constable in H.B.M. Consulate. This was in 1968 and he retired on pension in 1893. On his retirement he returned to his native Sweden intending to settle there, but the call of the East was too strong for him so he came back to Hankow and there spent the remainder of his days. He never married, and as the was of a saving disposition he accumulated quite a considerable fortune which he left by will to his native parish in Sweden for the benefit of the poor and for education.
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