At the last meeting of Council of the Royal Empire Society in London Mr, D. A. Irving Shanghai was elected a Fellow, Tuo forthcoming wedding, state Hongkong papers, is announced o€ Alexander Rutherford Ovens, of tha British Consulate, Tamsui, Formosa, to Miss Joanna' Hall Blackstock Ovens, travelling to Hongkong on board the Rajputana, Mr. E, M, Gull, the ce-Secretary with Mr, Wilcox of the China sociation, is now very much better—he has been ill with arthritis—and will soon be returning to his duties, states a message from Londow, An D. B. Ingram, Counsellor to HIM. Legation, is to represent the Minister with the National Govern: ment in Nanking, succeeding Mel A.B. Ayeling, who is returning to Peking as First Secretary of th Legation, Mr. G. A, Herbert of I. M. Con. sulate General is going to Tientsin, and Mr. W. C. Cassels to Peking, where he will assume duty as as+ instant Chinese secretary, taking the place of Mr. H. I. Pridewux-Bruno who is going on leave, Miss Barbara Schurman, daugh-for of Mr. Jacob Schurman recent; ly American "ambassador to Gers many, is arriving shortly in Peking to visit her sisters, Mrs. John Magruder and Mrs. James M. Me-Hugh, and will be the guest of Major and Mrs, Magruder.
CoxcaarunaTioNs to Mr. A. A, Brady who on March 17 celebrated the 2ist anniversary of his members ship of the Shanghai Stock Ex. change. Mr, Brady is no longer chairman of the organization, on Friday last having demitted "this office, Mr. A. W. Reynel] being eledt+ ed in his place, Mr. J. F. Affleck en, has bees appointed Li. M. Consul at Tsingtao, succeeding Mr. H, 8, King, brother of Judge G. W. King. My. King going home on eave, at th expiration of which ' there. is a posibilit his retiring because he has reached the age limit, Mr. H. H. P. Hand ley-Derry has been' mace Consul-General at Tsinanfu, Miss Florence Rothwell, eldest daughter of Alderman John Rothe well, of Salford, has accepted an appointment under the Wesleyan Missionary Society joint charge of a gi Conteal China, Her ister, Annie Gratta tran, the wife of a Wosyan missionary, some years ago" jeame to China to take charge of a hospital at Hankow, whence, during the revolution, she fled Japan,' where her marriage tool! place.
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