A pillar of Shanghai society and a cading member of the British commercial community, becomes an Old China Hand from' to-day onwards. For, Mr. N.S. Brown leaves England after 32 years' service in China. "Mr. Brown, besides devel-aping a notable career with Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, has found time to enter into the general preoccupations of his community and, in articular, has actively stimulated Sino-Foreig understanding. Asso-elated with an enterprise which is concerned with the general progress. of China as a whole, he has nécessarily been forced to cast his net wide and it was appropriate thst he should have found a place on the Boxer Indemnity Trustees Board on. whic his experience fas been of manifest advantage. Mr. Brown ha taken an interest in Chinese political developments so far as that interest fs consistent with the obligations of foreigner resident in China and, no doubt, "on his promotion to the dignity of an Old China Hand in his. native land, he will be a. friendly champion of his old scqualniances here." He certainly carries with him their abiding gratitude and good wishes for many happy years of} well-earned leisure,
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