Mu. L. Peel has left for Tientsin ta as Commissioner of Native Castor Mz. Nelson T. Johnson, U.S. Minister, is due to arrive in Shanghai on January 28 by the str. President Johnson.
LizurCovonen, J. Hayley Bel, Commissioner of Customs in Hong: kong, has returned from his visit to' North Manchuria, on his Way back to the South, Tae engagement is announced between Mr. John Frederick Pym son of the late E. T. Pym of C.LM. Customs and Mrs. Pym of Shanghai, and Patricia, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Mair of Ealing, London, Mu. Julean Arnold, commercial attache of the American Legation, with Mrs, Arnold and two children is expected to reach Peking early in March. They sailed from Francisco on January 17 and will romain for some time in Shanghai, Frienps of Miss Fern Nelson, formerly of Shanghai, now in San Francisco, will be interested to hear that she has been appointed secretary to the Secretary of the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific Coast, the best position for a woman the Board has to offer.
Carr. Terrible, one of the best known shipping masters in Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's service has. retired after twenty-eight years with the company. He had been master for twenty-three years. Capt. Terrible intends to proceed to British Columbia in March to make his home there, Arthur Garrels, the new. American Consul for Japan, formerly Consul General at Melbourne and Prior to that Consul General Athend, will arrive in Tokyo on February 13 to take up his official duties. The Consulate General is at present in charge of Mr, Charles L, De Vault, Mu, E, M. Gull, formerly Secretary of the Associated British Chambers of Commerce in China and Hongkong, and now Joint Secretary in London of the China Association and China Committees, who is shortly revisiting China, wi recently appointed Hon, Adviser on. China affairs to the Federation of British Industries. He is expected 25! to reach Hongkong, where he will spend some little time, early in February.
Tue Bishop of Vietorin on January 4 licenced in his private Chapel the Rev. Wilfrid Stott, BA, B., London, formerly curate fof " St. "Matthew's, Bristol, and tutor at the B.CMS. College, Clifton, to missionary work under the BICM.S, in Nanning. Dr.
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