Mr, Edward Edgar, the papuler sportsman and clubman of Newchwang, is in Shanghai for a short time.
Tue American trip proposed by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden for this summer may be extended to Japan and China, So far no definite decision hus been reached.
'Mu, R. A, Donaldson, of Messrs. Lloyd, Atreo & Smith,' of London, left_on Monday for Japan by the: is shortly to China, S. Nagasaki Maru. He Mr, G. B. Sansom, commercial counsellor of the British Embassy, Tokyo, is leaving for England but expects to return to Tokyo in about a year.
Mr, Sidney, Barton, C36, return by the P. & 0. S, Mantua on Monday after a short visit to Hongkong. Another arrival by the! same liner will be Mr. 0. St. C. O'Malley, the new Counsellor of the: Legation' in Peking.
Ma, L. J. Nuzum, of Messrs, Par-' bury, Henry & Ca, a well-known, resident of Kobe, left Japan on January 26 for Australia by the str. St. Alba 'THe many friends of Capt. "Paddy" Miller will regret to hear that he is in the General Hospi cuffering with a severe attack of pleurisy.
Mr, R, B, England, who has been manager for China of the International' Correspondence Schools, eft, with his wife and child, for Home, by the str. Emil Kirdorf.
Gex, Chang Pah-li, chief of stof? to Marshal Wu Pei-fu, left for]
inking on Thursday to confer with Marshal Sun Chuan-fang. He will return to Shanghai in a day or Tue Reverend P. L. Froe, direct or of the Siccawei Observatory, is leaving Shanghai for a few months on account of his health. During his absence Reverend Father Chevalier will be in charge of the Observatory.
Mus. Desnitsky Stone Jeff on Saturday by the M. BIN. Co's str. Fontainebleau, for" Singapore, where she will - join her husband who is there on a business trip for the China General Edison Ca, Inc.
Ma, J. T. Wright, a collector for the Field Museum of Natural Histary and other similar organizations, and Mrs, Wright have returned from a trip up the Chientang River, with headquarters at Tungln. Both Mr. and Mrs, Wright were formerly on the staff of the US. Consulate-General in Shanghai.
Dr. 8. ©, Harland, Professor of Botany at the Imperial College of 'Tropieal Agriculture, Trinidad, has arrived in London from a. mission to Panama, California, Honolala,_ Japan, the Philippine Islands, Malay, Burma, and Ceylon, where ho has been' investigating—the possibilities of finding banana plants immune to Panama disease and—limes mop susceptible withertip.
'A retry wedding took place at the Free Christian Church on Saturday afternoon when Miss Sofie Asheim, Bits, of the Norwegian Lutheran Missionary Society, Hunan, was married to the Rev. Luther Lee, 2... Lilt, of the editorial staff of the' Christian Literature Society. The Rev. C. Y. Cheng, 0. and the Rev D. MacGillivray gave the bride Mr, James Them, of the Export Department of Messrs. Rootes, Ld., been in Shanghai for a left on Saturday for a business trip to Japan and will r turn to Shanghai about February}
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