Amoy, July 17.
Mr. D. A. E. Bell, manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, leaves us on Tuesday for Europe, on Jong leave. He will not return, of course, to Amoy, and there is not a person among the business community of the city, nor the residents of Kulangsu who does not deeply regret his departure. He has been here fiv years and his tall, broad, stern looking figure has become as much a part of our landscape as the Camel Rock that watches over the harbour. His stern countenance, however, hides a sympathetic soul. Many have had reason to bless his quiet unostentatious indness and' goodness of heart He was born in Dunfries and comes from a well-known Scottish family. His father served through the Indian Mutiny as colonel of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. His maternal grandfather was a surgeon during the Crimean War, and an ancestor, Capt. Bell was aide-decamp to General Wolfe who met his death on the Heights of Abraham.
On a St, Andrew's Night, when Mr. Bell appears clad in the dress of his try, one can in imagination catch a glimpse of what stalwart, gallant men his forebears must have been children of indigent Chinese parents. Captain Bass and others followed with other reminiscences of Mr. Bell's good Work.
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