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GERMANY ROCKS er was educated at Marlborough, has been engaged in preparing his and joined the Chinese Customs memoirs for private circulation, service in 1882. He has boon his principal object being to na-
EARTHQUAKES RECORDED Commissioner of Customs in Now sist students of Chinese history by
OVER WIDE AREA chwang, Kowloon, Amoy, Kaskow, reference to outstanding events in
Berlin, Feb. & and finally Shanghai. His apoint the affairs of the country which
Earthquake shocks were falt ment in this elty dated from coincide with the principal dates By the departure for England twelve years ago, but he had pre-of his own career, and which he over a large ares of South Germany. on February 12 of Mr. E. Gordon viously been stationed here as himself has first hand recollection, this morning.
On the occasion of his retire- Rastoff, in Baden, suffered the Lowder, retired Commissioner of Commissioner for a few months
burt and considerable Customs, Shanghai will lose one in 1909, during which time the ment from the service In April, most. Fifty are reported to have of its most interesting and force-Astron channel was opened. Short 1922, member of both the indoor boon
ly after he took up control of the and outdoor staff of the Chinese damage to property was caused. ful personalities, and one who is Customs in Shanghai, in 1921, Maritime Customs presented to At Ostigheim, Stolnhausen and Ilaked through his ancestry with the committee of consulting en- Mr. Lowder a silver ross bowls,, Kaiserlaulen, shocks were also the earliest beglanings of British gincern visited the city for the suitably inscribed, as a parting | felt.
The solsmograph at Heidelburg enterprise in the Far East. Mr. purpose of debating the question gift. Mr. Lowder then paid 1-i- Gondun Lowder has spent 50 of of improvement of the approaches bute to the many valued friend recorded the meat violent shocks
to the port
After retiring on ships which he had made in the since the instruments wore instal- his 70 years in Chlox, and for no superannuation In 1922, Mr. service. He still folt young. heled.-Reuter's Special. icas a period than forty years was Lowder spent about five months declared, and wore it not that he associated with the Customa ser in the home country before re-recognised the absolute justice of suming residence Shanghai. getting rid of the "old hands to Though he has for many years make room for younger men, he To a North China Daily News been so closely identified with the should resent having to go. Ilis representative Mr. Gordon Low- affairs of Shanghai, be stated that continuity of association with the er gave some interesting facts the period of his service which he Customs will not be broken, how- showing that his family's connec- valued most was that of five years over, for he has a son, Mr. H. tion with Chian and Japan dates an audit secretary in the Inspec- G. Lowder, who is now Acting back for more than a century and torate of Customs at Peking. In-Commissioner at Ningpo.
Mr. Gordon Lowder was one of n half. Records are still in exist- cidentally was the last Commis ence which prove that his great-stoner to receive his appointment the original members of the Cus great-grandfather visited Canton as such from the great Inspector- toms Company, Shanghai Volun- in 1762. The grandson of this General, Bir Robert Hart, on the tear Corps, when it was formes early traveller in the Orient was rotirement of the latter in 1908. more than 30 years ago, and at Brat a midshipman in the Acrvice Mr. Gordon Lowder has been a a dance and concert given by the of the East India Company, and member of the Shanghat Club for company shortly before his retire- subsequently becorse first Btitish 25 years, and of the Country Club ment he and Mrs. Lowder werg consular chaplain at Shanghai. for about 80 years, besides be presented with a handsome placó In 1858 he was drowned at Pootoo. longing to the Race Club. He has of silverware.
It is now the intention of Mr. and his widow later married Sir rendered valuable assistance as a Rutherford Alcock, British Consul member of the Board of Film Cen- Lowder to make his home. in Eng- at Shanghai from 1846 to 1864. sorn and of its Library Committee. land, and he will probably take Afterwards he was appointed first During the past few months helup residence near Bournemouth. British Minister to Yedo, and sub- Bequently British Minister to Po king, holding this high ofee from 1805 to 1869.
Mr. Gordon Lowdor's father. the late Mr. J. F. Lowder, joined the British consular service in Japan in the year 1860. He was called to the English Bar In 1872, and resigned from the consular service the same year in order to take up an appointment as legal adviser to the Yokohama Kencho, which he held until 1888, when le commenced a private legal practise. During the course of this he played a prominent part In two famous cases, one being the ault arising out of a collision be- tween the Japanese cruiser Chi- shima and the P. and O. liner Ravenna, in which he won the ac- tion for the Japanese, and the nther the celebrated Karoo ease. Mr. J. F. Lowder died in 1902 Mr. Gordon Lowder's maternal grandfather, it is interesting to note. was the Rev. S. R. Brown Morrison who came out to the Education Society in Macao in 1838, leaving for Japan in 1859. He was jointly responsible for the translation of the New Testament into the Japanese Innguage.
Bom in Japan.
Born in Japan In 1862-th year in which Abraham Lincoln signed the act authorising the Icommencement of the transcontin
ental railway-Mr. Gordon Lowd-
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