The annual meeting of the Shang-kai Rifle Association, Col. W. F. Gordon presiding, was held on. Wed. nesday in the S.'V. C. Club, The Chairman was supported by the Committee, consisting of Messrs. 4. W, Baldwin, R. 1, Ito, Tibert, Y. C. Waung, A. M. Collaco (hon, secretary and treasurer), and "8, W. T. Rose, counts, to Captain Waung and the Chinese Company for work on the Range, and to the contributors, the prize fund for the annual sh The committee was re-electes 2 bloc, with the exception of tha substitution of Mr. L. Diespecker's name, vice Mr. FP, E, Hodges, who is, going on leave, Before the meeting adjourned Mr. Baldwin, on behalf of the S.R.A, presented Col. Gordon with a handsome pipe. Col. Gordon is Leaving for Home on February 28, The speaker expressed the regrets of the members that Col. Gordon was retiring from China,—They were sorry to see him go, but they. wished him health and happiness, peace and prosperity, in Scotland, The gift was a token of their esteem, and conveyed sentiments which could not be expressed in. words. They hoped that when thei ief enjoyed the fragrance sweet smoke that perhaps he would seo visions of his friends Shanghai.
Col, Gordon suitably replied, saying, "My pipe is my only pal, and being never far from me, 30) the R.A. bein ever will my thoughts."
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