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Rh In addition to its daily issue, the Post publishes a weekly mail edition, which also has a large sale. Like most newspaper enterprises in the Far East, the " South China Morning Post," Ltd., does not confine itself to the production of newspapers. Its printing department is fitted with the most modern English and American machinery and plant, including the linotype, of which marvellous invention the Company is the pioneer in the Far East, and of which the Chinese trained on the premises by Mr. G. J. Dyer come to be expert operators in a comparatively short time. So successful has the innovation been, that the Company is now erecting its third machine. Chromo- lithographic work is done on a big scale, and experts have pronounced it equal to the best home work of its class. A feature of the lithographic work is Chinese calendars, of which many thousands are turned out every year-end, and for which the demand is rapidly increasing. As a sign of development, it may be mentioned that the Company has recently erected its own gas-producing plant, which supplies the necessary power for driving the 16 and 32-horse-power engines, and also the electric motors which light the premises. Reforms have recently been instituted which will permit of further development. The present directorate consists of Dr. J. W. Noble (chairman) ; Mr. G. C. Moxon, National Bank of China ; Mr. J. Scott-Harston, of Messrs. Ewens and Harston, solicitors ; and Mr. H. Pinckney, of Stewart Bros.— all of whom take a very keen interest in the progress of the business. Mr. G. T. Lloyd, formerly assistant editor, is now general manager and editor, and he is supported by a capable and experienced staff.

MR. GEORGE T. LLOYD, the editor and general manager of the South China Morning Post, was born on October 2, 1872, and educated at Carmarthen, South Wales. His early training in journalism was obtained in the county of his birth. He occupied the editorial chairs of several English provincial newspapers before he came to Hongkong, in 1904, as assistant-editor of the Morning Post. Three years later he was appointed to his present position. Mr. Lloyd was president of St. George's Club for 1907. He resides at the King Edward Hotel, Hongkong. ♦ ♦♦ ♦ MR. THOMAS PETRIE, assistant-editor of the Sontli Cliina Morniiif^ Post, Hongkong, is a native of Scotland, and commenced his journalistic career on the staff of the Forfar branch of the Dundee Courier and Argus and Dundee Weeltly iVews. Later he was transferred to the head office at Dundee, and remained with this firm for four years. In 1900 he decided to come East, and in March of that year joined the staff of the China Mail, Hongkong. He remained in the Colony for two and a half years, and then proceeded to Bangkok as sub-editor of the Siam Observer, but, his health failing, he was compelled to leave Siam, and next joined the staff of the Japan Herald at Yokohama. In 1904 he returned to Hongkong, to take up sub-editorial work on the Morning Post, and in 1907, he became assistant-editor. He received the appointment of Official Shorthand Writer to the Supreme Court of Hongkong, and has acted in a similar capacity to various Commissions — those re the Private Chair and Jinrickshaw Coolies, the Public Works Department, and the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance. At the last-named, which sat in 1906 for ten months, no fewer than 183 witnesses were examined, and a remarkable amount of evidence was taken. Mr. Petrie was formerly a member of the Institute of Journalists.

THE "CHINESE MAIL." THE EDITORIAL STAFF.

'''The Chinese Mail. '''

The Chinese Mail, known in Chinese as the Wa Tse Yat Po. is one of the leading Chinese papers in South China. Its original promoters were Mr. George Murray Bain, of the China Mail, and Mr. Chun 6i Ting, Chinese Consul-General to Cuba — who, after his return to his own country, took part in the negotiation of the British Commercial Treaty with China. Mr. Chun Oi Ting is still a proprietor, and under his supervision, the paper, for over half a century, has pursued an impartial policy, and has striven to promote education and commerce. During the China-Japan War the offices were wrecked by an infuriated mass of Chinese, because the paper published the first-hand information