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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1931.
manufacturera moving at his beck] KOWLOON WEDDING.
MR. A. R. BROWN MARRIED TO MISS DORIS KAVE.
and call. In any caso there was never, before has, any one man who made himself like the supreme leader, the commander in chief of the nation, outside Government Tokyo, Nov. 11.
circles. There are to-day mon like Barona Furukawa, Fujita, and
The wedding was celebrated at The death is reported of Vis-Sumitomo, who are the hends of St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, count Ellehi Shibusawa, known all their respective banks as well as of yesterday afternoon, of Mr. Arthur over Japan as the Grand Old Man the business firms bearing their Robert Brown, the third son of of the Japanese business world. names; but none of them do en Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Brown, and in the same senso us did Viscount Mian Doris Kaye, the youngest Shibusawn.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Kayo. It is more than probable, indeed, The homes of both bride and groom Born in 1840 Viscount Shibu- that had he chosen to remain in saws, died at the age of 91. For the official world, he would have are at Wakefield, Yorkshire, the many years retired from live worked his way up to the highest former having arrived here on tho business life, he stood above any post in the land and would have. Rajputana.
The Rev. W. Walton Rogera, man, living or dond in modern made himself one of the greatest Japan, an object of loving rover.Prime Ministers the country over Vicar of St. Andrew's Church, per had. Likewise he would have formed the ceremony, The bride, ence, boundless confidence and risch even above Fleet Admiral who was given away by Mr. J. I
attired in a gown of whole hearted reliance. Nor was Count Toga or Field Marshal lunt, was
antin charmeuse, with his retirement like that of most Prince Yamagata, if he had identi-ivory
nel veil and orange other people, he being about the fled himself with the defence Brussels
binasome, She carried a bouquet busiest man in the land. Though service of the country,
creeper of honolulu
and white no longer connected with any com-
Of the Samurai.
erysanthemums, with maidenhair attended by the mercial business, the business
Shibusawa came of a samural ferns, and was
Mudd, world demanded his good offices in stock and his life's long motto was Misses A. A. Ilirst and E, F.
whom wore georgette one connection or another Inces "A merchant by choice bat both of santly, while he was, with all hin samurai at heart." To that motto dresses with inaize velvet coats and octogenarian weight, bound up lived up, le 137/24 a compeer velvet tricorne hats to match-the with seventy odd public bodies in for Kido, Okubo, Ito, Yamagata,
the capacity of either the president rouge, and Okuma, the builders
or
an adviser. In this double aanse Young Japan, reconstructing the mums,
verily a merchant prince both in point of wealth and of immense number of people.anxious to render
him service.
Yet there was a time when thin grand old man
of Eunice. They carried
of yellow crysanthe The train-bearer. Miss
the page,
he was the grandest old man of world which the hands of these Poppy Arnold, had a dress of poppy the day in the country. He was great statesmen did not reach, floral georgette, and
namely the business world. The Master Roger Arnold, wore a cos-
natin. business and industrial world of tume of white nat
The matron of honour was Mrs. Japan to-day in
is quite different from what it was in old Japan, and G. 11. Arnold, her dress being of Viscount Shibusawa Was
the black chiffon volvet with hat to The best man was Mr. W. pioneer, and the surviving leader, match. who played the most Important Stoker and Mr. G. W.-Arnold was part in effecting the change. The groomsman, aged peer was sometimes heard to Mr. Rupert Raldwin was at the
when in good bumour: " jorgan during the service.
Following the ceremony, a re- have made the present business world of Japan. He only uttered the truth.
was, as a young severnment Official, dismissed from
the Finance Office, not for ny fault of his, but loyalty to share the disgrace of his superior, the late Marquis Innse. The plain Elichi Shibusawa, as he was then, was then in his 34th year and from that time on he never returned to off- cial life, but throw in his lot with business activity.
As A Banker.
"
The Visent was a the old man with all his corners rubbed off, and lever ready to open his purse and aid any worthy, und noble cause. Besides he was the most patient ar In tifty odd yours that followed men in Istening to the thousand he established the First Blank, the and one things brought to his ears, Bankers Club, Tokyo and other from morning to aight day after Chambers of Commerce, and host worn to one and war counsel and year out, with of other business corporations and kind companies, so that he was the pre-to another. His grand mansion ia Wad ፡፡ sident of soine 47 commercial cum-ji, a uburb of Tokyo.
statesincu, corns, all of the highest standing. Mecca for politicians.
educationists, mes, when he related from the liasiness business
and what not. priests. elergymen world in 1917,
The number of asylums, charitable institutions and the more dignified publle bodies, of which he was either the president or an advise was exactly 75: He was also a great entertainer of foreign tourista.
The most remarkable thing about him in those days, was that he combined in himself the leader- ship in both the financial and business spheres of the country as the president of the First Bank and of Bunkers Club on the one
It was Viscount Shibusawn who hand and as the president of Tokyo Chamber of Commerce on the other, organised the relief ship sont to For more than a generation he assist the Chinese Yangtsze flood ruled the whole commercial and in-victims and whose feelings were when the Chinese dustrial life of the Empire, the most hurt higgest merchants, bankers and Government refused the gift.
reption was held at the Peninsula Hotel, which was largely attended.
The honeymoon is being spent At Macao. The bride's going-away dress was of saxe and beige crepe de chine, with hint to match.
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