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754 director of the Tientsin Hotung Land Company, and was formerly a director of the Soychi Cotton Mills. Shanghai. He owns a magnificent house and garden, built at a cost of over half a million dollars, and furnished with specially imported European furniture. It contains a valuable collection of old porcelain of which he is a connoisseur. He is married, and has four sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Mr. Sun Kwan Chau, who is twenty-one years of age, is studying in Switzerland under the guardianship of Major-General M. Rischter, and Sun Kwan Ji, a lad of eight, is under the guardianship of Mr. E. Kretzschmar, a merchant, formerly torpedo tutor to Prince Henry of Prussia.

 MR. WU JIM PAH.

, also known as Mr. Wu Mow Ting, a son of the late Mr. Wu Tsun Loh, merchant, of Soochow, was born in 1850 in the province in which Li Hung Chang was born. On leaving school Mr. Wu entered the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Shanghai as assistant compradore, and seventeen years later was transferred as compradore to Tientsin. In 1894 he was appointed by Li Hung Chang, then Viceroy of the province, managing director of the North China Imperial Railways. He held this appointment for three years, and the capable manner in which he discharged the duties was testified to by the eulogium which he received from the engineers and foreign staff of the railway at the close of his administration. In a handsome illuminated address his just dealing and his endeavours to stamp out corruption were extolled, and the assurance was given him that his example would have far-reaching influence in the country. He resigned his compradoreship in 1905, after thirty-nine years' service with the bank, having been promoted by the Chinese Government to the First Rank of the Third Degree of Metropolitan Officials at the Court of Peking. On the recommendation of the Viceroy he was appointed to open up a tannery and certain Government mills in the neighbourhood of Tientsin, and of these he still remains in charge. He is a director of the Tientsin Electric Light Company, of the Hsin Chi Boden and Baugesellschaft, and of the Chinese Investment Company, and is a shareholder in many British companies in Hongkong, Shanghai, and Tientsin. He is married and has four sons.



 MR. KWOH CHU CHING. , compradore to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Tientsin, was a son of the late Mr. Kwoh Ya Tang, and was born in the Settlement in 1868. After receiving a good education he was engaged as manager of various Chinese native banks in Tientsin, until he received his present appointment in 1907. Mr. Kwoh owns considerable property and is a member of the committee of the Native Banking Guild. He is much respected among the Chinese, for he has done a great deal to help his fellow countrymen, and was among the most liberal donors to the famine relief funds.