Extvaordinarily popular with all raths of the Customs administra. tion, Chinese us well as foreign, Mr. Holland, as one of his oldest friends here observed to-day, un question: ably was "a prince of a fellow." Formerly a keen tennis player, he had in later years devoted most of his leisure to billiards—a game at which he rarely met his match. He was selected to play against the famous John Roberts at the Customs Club in Shanghai many years ago and quite recently defeated George Gray, the Australian former world champion, in a match at the Peking Club. One of Mr. Holland's most likeable characteristics was that, despite his prowess with the cue, he was always ready to take a beginner, and leave him the richer for some useful advice on how to improve his game.
Mr. Holland leaves a wife and two children—a girl of 13 and a boy aged 17. The latter is still at school in England. His father, who was chiefly responsible for establish-St. Moritz, in Switzerland, as a health resort is still alive at' the age of 81.—Exchange.
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