With the death of te. Oscar Mot:
on Tuesday, June ina Jos one of her real old "China Hands," for with the exception of two years in Denmark, the late Mr. aéoller spent nearly sixty years in this country.
Mr. Moller came to China at the age of 20 in 1875, in the employ of the Great Northern. Telegraph Ca. While employed by this company, he was one of the sub-engineers who Dullt the Tientsin-Shanghai landline.
He resigned from the Great North~ ern in 1883, and then made a survey of the Hankow-Canton landline, being] Yaken so seriously ill en monte that at first his life was despaired of He was then employed by the Viceroy of Canton, his greatest task. being the laying of the submarine able between the mainland and the Island of Hainan. 'This was. before the late Mr. Sheng Kung-pao, finander, banker, and the founder' of the China Merchants $.N. Ca, consolidate ed the Chinese Telegraph'Co. into the istration, Imperial Chinese Telegraph' Admin-
In 1897, Mr, Moller was transferred Book Mealik Sarkisian, The service es, conducted by the Rev. Father {eo place In he Lokawei Cemetery sony Shaler The ferment
Sand the pal-bearers were Messrs. Hoon, W Motvessian, VL. Sarit,
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