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OBITUARY,
RT. REV. W. W. CASSELS, D.D., AND MRS. CASSELS.
That this veteran Bishop and his wife, should die within a week of one another and be burled on the
tho same day outside Cathedral Church of that vast and Last August, writes a corres-fdistant Dlocose,, which they so London, Dec. 10.
pondent, the Assistant Bishop in long and faithfully served, has 3 The Morning Post correspondentWest China (Dr. Howard Mowll) peculiar pathos and beauty. at Geneva learns, authoritatively that the new Opium Advisory and his wife, together with alx Commission of the League will in- missionarios were captured by clude the ex-police Commissioner
Mr. Woods, of New York, replac-brigands and for three weeks were ing Mrs. Hamilton Wright; while in their hands. A letter has just Mr. L. A. Lyall, British Customs (been received in Hongkong from Commissioner In China or Mr. Archibald Rose, ex-British Commer- cial Attache at Peking, will succeed the late Sir John Jordan-Reuter.
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riding as there is for a would-be motor car driver to submit him- solf to driving test, the Traffic Department is now conducting an examination in cases where the aspiring motor cyclist has" had no previous experience.
Yesterday afternoon the un- usual spectacle of a motor cyclist. being tested by a traffic officer was witnessed in the compound of the Contral Police Station. The applicant for the licence was a Chinese youth, who was riding a bran now Harley-Davidson combination, and the inspecting officer rode head on his own machine, asking the applicant to follow him and do all that ho did. All the normal riding experiences in conformity with traffic rogula tions and signals were gone through.
A demonstration of the dangers of skidding and how to manoeuvro in traffic was given by an officer on a A. J. S. combination, and the whole proceeding emphasised how important it is, from the viewpoint of public safety, for motor cyclists to be proficient.
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Bishop Mowll to say that Bishop Cassels, the veteran. Bishop of the Diocese, and his wife are dend. Bishop Mowll writes, on November
20th:
兰
"I am sorry to inform you of the sudden death of Bishop Cassels on November 7th. from typhus, followed by that of Mr. Cravels
November 15th. on
A Unique Record.
Times The
says: William Wharton Cassela, the son of WAS born at John Cassein,
Ho Oporto on March 11, 1858, was sent to Repton School, and then went up to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took an ́er- dinary degree, and was ordained in 1882 by the Bishop of Roche ster, Dr. Thorod, to the curacy of All Saints, South Lambeth, of of which parish the late Dr. F. G. Lee was vicar. In 1835 Mr. Cas- Both had been in their usual sels went out to China as one of a party of young Cambridge health until within a few daysraduates, who have been since of the end and had so appreciated kuown in missionary circles A all the manifestations of affer the "Cambridge Seven." tion shown them on the thirtieth
years later in October, 1895, he anniversary of the Bishop's was consecrated first Bishop in Consecration, which fell on St. Western China. He had thus just Luke's Day, that it seemed al- completed 40 years of service in most incredible when we laid China and 30 years of his episco- them to rest side by side on
pate. This constitutes a "record" November 18th., just one calen-which is almost unique in foreign dar month afterwards, outside the West door of the Cathedral. "The Bishop has always been associated with this Diocese, and having been connected with it from the very beginning, it seems quite impossible to think of the work without him."
missionary annals.
Ten
Churches
During his residence in China the bishop saw some remarkable changes. When he went to the west of China as a young pioneer missionary it was to encounter much bitter opposition and pre- judige, which frequently showed The late Bishop Cassels was one itself in riot and disorder, but he of the famous "Cambridge seven."lived to see this opposition pass In 1884 extraordinary interest away and give place to, a spirit of was aroused by the announcement friendliness on the part of the that the Captain of the Cambridge people. Some few years ago a Cricket XI and the stroke oar of cathedral to seat 1,500 people was the Cambridge boat were going erected in the city of Pao-ring, cut as missionaries. Soon they which had been his headquarters were joined by five others: Mr. for nearly 10 years. Montagu Beauchamp (now "Sir have also been built in a large Montagu Beauchamp, Bart) also number of cities in the diocese, a well-known rowing man, Mr. D. and the bishop was able to ordain E. Hoste, an officer in the Royal some 12 Chinese clergy. He had Artillery, Messrs. C. H. and A. T. under his jurisdiction members of l'olhill Turner, both of them pro- both the Church Missionary minent Eton and Cambridg: Society and the China Inland Mis- cricketers and W. W. Cassels.sion and, owing to the growth of All volunteered for China. The the work, the Archbishop of Can- late Bishop reached China in 1885, terbury some three years. and for forty years has spent appointed an assistant bishop ta himself in the service of China. Bishop Cassels in the person of Thirty years ago, on St. Luke's the Right Rev. H. W. K. Mowll, Day, he was consecrated as first D.D., news of whose capture by Bishop of the Diocese of West brigands and subsequent libera-
tion was received recently. China; Bishop Edward Talbot, ex-
ago
respect by Chinese of all classes,
J, Wedlake, L. M. S. Lloyd, J. Bishop of Winchester, being conBishop Cassels was held in grent Middleton Smith, W. 5. Drake, J.secrated at the same time. The A. H. Plummer, T. P. Saunderson, same year the Bishop was marri- J. V. Ramsay, J. C. Faors, unded. D. Lyon.
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