The older residents of Shanghai' will hear with deep: regret and sorrow the news of the death of Mr, Wade Gardiner, who was for many years the manager of the local agency of the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation. Mr. Gardiner joined the London office in May, 1873, and after]. spending a decade in that city was -transferred to Hongkong as the submanager there, where he remained until the early '90's, when he took up the position of manager of the Shanghai branch, which he filled until 1901, being transferred to the New York office, in which city he was the agent until the date of his retirement from netiye service in 1919. 2 Mr. Gardiner is survived by his wife and four children. He was one of the leading sportsmen of both Hongkong and Shanghai, and was one of the first men in the Far East to play golf, being one of the most enthusiastic followers of that sport at the original Happy Valley Course in the southern city. His associates' in, business, his equals and his subordinates, loved and respected and admired him.
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