Matheson & Ca, Ltd, has returned rom tong leave.
Dr. and Mrs, W. S, Parsons have left on the inv, Victoria for a short holiday in Manila and Bagio, Mr. Thomas Gwynne, Postal Commissioner retired, and Mrs. Gwynne have returned from England via America and. Canad:
'Mr, M, Saunderson representing 4, Slone te Ca,, Ltd,, attached to Jardine Engingering' Corpn, Ltd, accompanied "by Mrs. Satinderson have returned, Two prominent local Chinese leaders, Messrs, Ling Kang-hou and Vu Ya-ching, " have recently 1 here for Hongkong "on business states a report to the "Ta Mel Pao."
Mr. A. O, Fisher, Director of General "Adtairs of Messrs. William Fa for Tientsin and North Hunt & Company sails on the s,
China on an inspection tour for his rin.
Mr. V, Gordon Bowden, Australian Trade Commissioner in China, will be leaving in Janusry. for a" short visit to Australia, Ee will be accor panied by Mrs, Bowden and their daughter Miss Doreen Bowden.
M, Reno Laurens well-known local French Journalist and sub-manager of "Lo Journal Parisien" fo the "Journal de Shang-hal'
Prof, Gunnar Anderson, the [Swedish explorer and archaeologist, and his Danish secretary. Miss Vivian Dott, painter and" ethnologist, soiled on Bee. 18 for Hongkong en [foute to. Hanoi.' They will make scientific investigations in the interior of French Indo-Chna and Siam, arrived In Japan on the s8, Empress of Canada on Decer-ber 12 after having spent 10 months holiday in England and in America. They are spending "a few days In Kyoto and Nara and arrived in Shunghal by the P. & 0. s, Ranpura fon Sunday. December 1
Generdl Chang Hsueh-liang, the "Young Marshal" who has rived in fotirement. in Fenghua district. of Chekiang province since the Sian coup last December, arrived in Han ow a fow days ago, says a dispatch Social Daily News it is learnt that General Chang will be given an Important post in the National Gov ernment after its coming reorganization.
Mr, 0. K. Yul, the Mayor, and Mr. Kung Lingckal, elder son of Dr.
Kung, Minister of Finance, have been appointed directors of the Cone {tal Trust, according to a Chinese Report from Hankow. This Government "office way removed from their work.
Mr. and Mrs, N. L- Sparke arrived im Yokohama by the "Empress "of Canada on December 13 and are now in Miyanoshita awaiting the departure for Shanghai of the Ranpura scheduled 10 arrive here on December 19. Mr. John Sparke who transhipped from the Ra at Hongkong arrived by the Athos IL They will make their home in Kinnear Road until their Hungjao residence is habitable.
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