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834 clear-minded Chinese official possessing the administrative ability and practical knowledge requisite for carrying his schemes into effect.

, who has been British Consul at Swatow, since October, 1906, was born in 1856. He matriculated at London University, and was appointed a Student Interpreter in China in 1878. He has held positions in the Consular service in a number of places in the Chinese Empire, including Taiwan, Amoy, Kiukiang, Pagoda Island, Ningpo, and Wuchow. Mr. Hausser, who is an excellent linguist, was employed on special service with the Burma-China Frontier Commission from 1897 to 1899. who has been the Commissioner of Customs at Swatow since April, 1907, is the son of the late George A. Harris, of the Madras Civil Service, the grandson of the first Lord Harris. Born in 1863, he was educated privately, and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he won the Davis Chinese Scholarship. Entering the Imperial Maritime Customs in 1883, he was for four years secretary and interpreter to Admiral Lang, R.N., the organiser of the Peiyang Navy. He has been acting as a Commissioner of Customs since 1900, and opened the new Treaty port of Changsha, the home of conservatism, in Hunan, in 1904. In recognition of his services, Mr. Harris has received the Order of the Double Dragon, and the Civil Rank of the Third Class from the Imperial Chinese Government. is a man who, embarking on a business career, has, in later life, devoted considerable time to literature, and, having travelled extensively, has won a high reputation on account of the attractive and interesting manner in which he has placed the impressions of his journeys on