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  PAHANG, Sultan of (see: MAATHON, H. H. SIR AHMAD SHAH). 

 PAGET, Ralph Spencer (BANGKOK), C.M.G.; H.B.M. Minister; b. Nov. 26, 1864;. of Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, G.C.B. Educ.: Eton. Nominated Attache, 1888; appointed to Vienna, 1888; to Cairo, 1889; employed at Zanzibar, 1891-92; transferred to Washington, 1892; to Tokyo, 1893; promoted, 2nd Secretary, 1895; transferred to Cairo, 1899; to Munich, 1900; to Constantinople, 1901; to Guatemala, 1901; to Bangkok, 1902; has been Minister at Bangkok since 1904. Club: St. James. Address: H.B.M. Legation, Bangkok, Siam. 

 PAINTER, Major Arnaud Clarke (HONGKONG), Officer Commanding Hongkong Co., Royal Engineers; b. Sept. 2, 1863. Lieut. R.E., July 28, 1883: Capt., Get, 18, 1891; Major, April 1, 1900. Club: Hongkong, Address: Military Headquarters, Hongkong. 

 P'AN'HSIAO-SUP'AN HSIAO-SU [sic] (KANSU), ex-Governor; native of Hunan. Prefect of Ti-hua, Kansu; Chen-ti Tao, do., 1896; Judicial Commissioner, do. spring, 1901; Financial Commissioner, New Dominion, Jan., 1901; Governor, do., Oct., 1902, degraded and sent to work on roads for peculation, Sept., 1905. 

 PARDON, Edward R. S. (NAGASAKI), Journalist: b. Turnchapel, South Devon, 1873, 4th s. of John Pardon, of Portsmouth: m. to Eva, y. d. of late John Evans, of Milford Haven. Educ.: Portsmouth. Came East in 1903; Editor of "Nagasaki Press," since Jan., 1904. Address: Nagasaki, Japan. 

 PARLANE, William (HONGKONG). M.I.M.K., Manager, Hongkong Ice Co., Ltd.; b. 1845, at Glasgow, Scotland. Served apprenticeship as Mechanical Engineer at Dalmouach and with Messrs Denny and Co., Dumbarton; in 1867 and 1868 was chief Engineer in the Argentine Navy, and as a spectator was several times under fire in Paraguay in the war between the allied Brazilian and Argentine forces against the Paraguayans; in 1869 came to-China round the Cape of Good Hope as Chief Engineer of one of Jardine, Matheson &Co.'s steamers; has been Manager of the Hongkong Ice Co. from 1884. Address: East Point, Hongkong. 

 PARLETT, Harold George (NAGASAKI), 1st class Assistant, H.B.M. Consular