Departure With Family to Settle Down at Home A host of friends of Mr. and Mrs. R. Weeding Skinner assembly ed on board the P. & 0. 8, Mantua on Tuesday afternoon to say goodbye, Mr, and Mrs, Skinner and the two small sons leaving Shanghai for good with the intention of settling down in the Old Country. During the past week or so Mr. and Mrs, Skinner.have been dining their way out of Shanghai," and have received many tokens of the esteem in which they are both held Mr. Skinner has completed 21 years in the Far East. Asa youngster he arrived in Shanghai, straight from Jesus College (Cambridge), in 1907, and worked for some 16 years' with the China Mutual Life Assurance Ca., until the merging of that company with the Sun Life Assurance Ca. of Canada, He was appointed jocal secretary of the Hongkong & Shang hai Hotels Ltd., and in 1926 was Promoted Shanghai manager of that firm. His successor has not yet been appointed, and pending the arrival of one of the managing directors from Hongkong Mr. V. W. G, Smith will be in charge of the In his day at Jesus College Mr. Skinner was a great hockey en= thusiasm, and was in the eleven in hin last! year. He also played in worst, unless tempting bribes are offered to the police. Their cargoes interport kames out here, A keen ud frequently are of 1 ttle value when they arrive. A clubman he was a member of, the five there has to be paid to ensure any semblance of Shanghai Race, French Golf " and sing from point point, a aquecse which is ultimately Cricket Clubs and took much inter-Passed on to the Shanghai consumer. ext in each of them: Until a few China's verelgn rights have not permitted the officials ged [years ago he was a prominent to be responsible for the maintenance of the Soochow Creek es a rin the interests of the ire waterway, to accept the generous off for made by the Whangpoo Cause! fighters, and for five years was fore-vane Be edge and conserve the creek {or man of the Mik-ho-lung Brigade. Chinese themselves. Owing to Mrs: Skinner has always sheen Jame on the creek closely identified with, the activities now frequent. A few dave block about tree, of the British Women's Association, miles in length from 10 to 18 mile rs from Shanghai, which was not The stalfs of the Hotels gave Mr, cleared for three or foot days and rust have resulted in great 1c and Mrs, Skinner an enthusiastic to those craft conveying perishable cargo to the Settlement, No lo send-off @ week ago at the Majestic than five steam launches tewing boat me and many hundreds of Hotel, and on Saturday the ma other craft were held up and it was net until high tides brought mo ers of the Hotels: Mz, Wan water that the Jam was broken up.
(Astor House), Mr, Telfer (Majestic), Mr. Boss' (Palace), together several jets into play. As they stairs but the girls at the roar fell with Mr, Smith (Secretary), save broke through the' wooden partition on those in front and the doors dinner party in their honour ut a sheet of flame swept over the top which only opened inward prevented ithe Astor House, when presentations of the stairs and ent off any possible egress. Deceased died from injuries were made. retreat in that direction, It was on received in the stampede, Six this spot that the first jets were others were in the Lester Chinese directed. Orders.were given to Hospital, while all others who had neglect the base of the fire, some 40
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