The negotiations between representatives' appointed the Shanghai Municipal Council and the Chinese authorities to Friends Entertain Bim On Eve of Departure Starting at 1 pam, and ending Jabout 4" p.m—so" numerous and Jwonderful were the speeches—there ]was an epic tif in at the Shanghai Club, on June 4, given by a few of his friends as a farewell to Mr. J. J. Sheridan, branch manager of Messrs. Caldbeck, Macgregor & Ca., who left on Sunday by the Blue Funnel str. Hector to join his tinily {for nine months' leave at Home.
Mr. Sheridan's "polo four" were toasted almost as often and enthusiastically as he was himself. Preceding the tiffin, Mr. Norman Macgregor, governing director the firm, held a reception in the board room, which was attended by a large number of the leading official jand business men of Shanghai, likewise to wish Mr. Sheridan bon voyage, Mr. Macgregor taking advantage of this opportunity to pay tribute to his popular branch m: Jager, because, as later was explainced a the tiffin, the latter function, had been kept a secret and he only. ment in regard to Settlement Roads have reached. stage where concerted proposals will now be submitted to the Shanghai Municipal ouneil and the Chinese Authori to the Chinese, although Japan. would not seek to block the policing of these highways by the Chinese special constabulary. 7 Japan understands, according to this official, that the Court of Consuls at Shanghai possesses the administrative power and it is the Japanese view the Shanghai Municipal Council is without any bority to retrocede this power to the Chinese.
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