M, FonTENoy who has been away on a short trip home to Paris, an] who stopped off in Indo-China ea is way out again, has returned to Shanghai. aes, 4 We are glad to hear that Hers bert, the son of Mr. W. A. Barlows Wheeler, has passed into Sandhurst, He will' be remembered by many, old Chefoo Schoo! pupils.
Arter sixteen years' service with the Whangpoo Conservancy Board Mr. Arthur Akehurst was supers annuated on December 31 last. Mr. Akehurst has joined Messrs, Millington, Ltd., as from January 1, Mu. Gordon Mackay, son of Mr, BE. F. Mackay, late of Butterfield Swire, Shanghai, has won an entrance exhibition at Clare College, Cambridge, for Classics, from Marl borough College, Mu. E. C. Stocker, whose resignation as engineering assistant of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board has been accepted, has been appointed an engineer of the Texas Oil, Ca. Mr. Stocker will leave the Censors vane Board at the end of February, Tus engagement is announced of Kenneth G. Stephenson, son' of Colonel and Mrs, H. M. Stephenson of "Middlewich, Cheshire, to Blaine Hermione (Honey) elder daughter of Mrs. H. and the late J, R, Hare greaves, 'A MARRIAGE has been arranged between William Harkness Browne, eldest son of the Rev, and W. Browne, of Hangchow, Chekiang, and Florence Mary Fox, nA. eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Fox, of Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
Mu. E, L, Cockell, Hon, Com+ mercial Attache of the British Lega-jon, has been awarded the Order of the British Empire for his vices. Mr, and Mrs, Ccekell, whos home in Peking is said to be one of the show places of Chinese art, are at present on leave, travelling in Australia, 'THE engagement was announced last month between Lieutenant Patrick William Humphreys, Ravi, H.MS. Furious, and Zelin Mary, elder daughter of Sir Erie Hambro, and Lady Hambro, In eon= sequence of Lieutenant Humphreys. being under early orders to proceed. to China the marriage was to take place quietly in December, Locar friends of George Noble, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Noble of Shanghai, will be sorry to learn that he sustained a contused wound the head, fractured right collar bone, and shock, when a motor-cycle he was riding struck a post in Ekinbin-road, Annerley, Brisbane, Australia, Ambulance bearers ren" dered first aid, and conveyed him to the Mater Miseric reline Hospital, where he is progressing favourably.
News is received from Home of distinctions won by two sons of Sir Francis Aglen, formerly Inspector General of Customs. Mx. Edward Francis Aglen, a graduate of Mage dale Collexe, Oxford, is one of 12 candidates selected for appointment to the Sudan Political Service, His younger brother, Mr. Anthony John Aglen, Marlborough College, has been awarded an entrance schola ship of £100 for Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge,
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