Popular Sportsman Sailing for Home Mr. Waller England. Wilson provably will be more than glad, until the reaction comes, do, get on board the the s. Corfu on Tuesday, Mar, 17. Old residents leaving on reliroment always have a hectic last month in Shanghai, but he possibly has had even more than the average amount of eating, drinking, and speechmaking, a curol: lary not only of his 40 years ascot tion with Messrs: Jardine, Matheson Ca. (from the age.of 14), but of his innumerable other activities, especial-sports fields, The colossal silver Pagoda presented to. him by renlor Chinese employees of Ewo, previously mentioned, was but one of a multitude Ata dinner party given by Mr. and Ars, John North, a very pretty salver fof dragon design was: presented by Ins, Phyllis Boardman on behalf of the foreign stof? of the Kung Yikt MULL (Ewo); his office colleagues of the mills and Mr. A. Piercy, of the Import Department, gave him a beautiful silver junk, Mr. R, J, MeNicol doing the honours; the Cathedral Club, at a dinner attended by over thirly members, gave him a set of Chinese silver spoons; and the foreign staffs of the Ewo and Yangtszepoo Mills adelea to the future labours of his parlour-mald with a sliver cigarette-box_ embossed, with the Ewo house-flag. There was also, of course, the "Recreation Club presentation of some while ago, All this was followed by a splendid sporting tribute from the Shanghai Cricket Club to one who probably has had as much 10 do with lowering their colours on many occasions as any other of the Recs, Brigadier General E, B, Macnaghten, President of the S.C.C, in the course of a letter fon behalf ofthe club, stated:
"Knowing you as I have done these many years past, and realizing and appreciating to the full the rare qualities of sportsmanship which have been a consistent and invariable characteristic, closely and irrevocably associated and interwoven with what ever line of sport—ericket, football ete—in which you have indulged, It is truly with mingled feelings, feelings ff sadness and regret, that the Shang-hal Cricket Club contemplates the loss of one whose kindly bearing and splendid ideals of sportsmanship nave endeured him to the hearts of all who have known him,"
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