Macao to join the Morrison Educational Mission there in 1839, Ho afterwards went to Japan and was one of the translators of the New Testament into Japanese which trandation is used to the present day. It was he, also, who took home the first educational commission of Chinese students to America, the most prominent of these being Mr. Yung Wing, who was afterwards the first Chinese Minister to the United States.
It is only in accordance with the traditions of this family that Mr. E. Gordon Lowder's, three sons should serve in the Great War, in which one of them was killed in the great Somme push in September, 1915.
Mr. Lowder has received the following decorations from the Chinese Government: from the Manchu Government the civil rank of the third class and the order of the Double Dragon amd from the Republican Government the order of the Excellent Crop, third class and second class.
Mr. Lowder left office on Monday April 17, and_will sail for Vancouver by R. M. S. Empress of Russia today. He will actu-aly retire by superannuation in September of this year.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.