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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (JUNE) 1996-7.
acting Colonial Treasurer, April to Oct., 1892; Member of Legislative Council, May, 1895; Captain Super-
intendent of Police and Fire
Brigade, 1893, and of Victoria
Gaol, 1897; acting Colonial Sec-
retary, Feb. to Sept., 1900; Colonial Secretary, 1902; administered Go- vernment of Hongkong, Nov., 1903, to July, 1904; resumed as Colonial
Secretary, 1935. Decorations: For services rendered during coolie strike and great plague, 1894. Publications: Guide to Cantonese Colloquial; Yachting in Hongkong. Recreations: Hunting, polo, shooting, rifle shooting, fishing, yachting. Clubs: Windham ; Hong- kong. Address: Hongkong.
MAY, Lieut. - Commander
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John
(HONGKONG), R.N.; in Command of
H. M. torpedo boat destroyer 'Handy." Lieutenant, Dec. 31,
1900; appointed to command, 1906. Club: Hongkong. Address: H.M.S. "Handy," Hongkong.
MAYERS, Frederick John (CANTON),
F.R.G.S.; Acting Commissioner of
Customs, Canton; b. July, 1870. Educ.: Privately; appointed to I.M. Customs Service, China 1889; Served at Foochow, Tamsui, Kelung (Formosa); Shanghai, Han- kow, Chungking, Peking, Soochow, Tientsin and Canton; acted as Chinese Secretary to the Inspector General of Customs, Peking, 1897; in charge of Kiangsu Likin Collec torate, 1898-9; and of Tientsin
Native Customs, 1904. Decorations:
Double Dragon, 3rd Division, 1st
class; Civil Rark, 4th class, China. Clubs: Thatched House;
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Grosvenor; Hongkong ℗ Shanghai, etc. Address: Canton, China.
MAYERS, Sidney Francis (PEKING), Assistant Chinese Secretary H.B.M. Consular Service. Appointed Student Interpreter in China, Sept.
24, 1895; Assessor in Mixed Court,
Shanghai, 1898 to 1901; acting Vice- Consul at Shanghai, 1900; acting Chinese Secretary, Peking, 192; Assistant in Chinese Secretary's
Office, Peking, from Sept. 16, 1901, to May 15, 1903; 1st class assistant, May 5, 1904; assistant Chinese Sec- retary, since 1904. Address: II.B.M. Legation, Peking, China.
MA YU-KU’N, General (URGA), Com-
mander-in-Chief; native of Anhwei.
Commander-in-Chief, Chekiang;
Oct., 1899; do., Chihli, Aug., 1900; junior guardian, heir apparent, Jan., 1902; commanded twenty-
three or twenty-four battalions of troops; in 1905-06 ; ordered to Urga (Kalgan) Nov., 1905, to establish headquarters there.
MCALL, Dr. Percy Lonsdale (HAN-
KOW), B.A., M.B., Ch.B.; Medical
Missionary; b. July 10, 1870; m.,
Lillian M. Joyce. Educ.: Bristol
Grammar School, Cambridge Uni-
versity and Edinburgh University; scholar of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge; took 2nd class in hon- ours division, classical tripos, 1892, obtaining B.A., degree; in 1893
commenced Medical course at
Edinburgh University, graduated M.B., Ch.B., in July, 1898. Reached Hankow Dec., 1898; in joint charge of London Mission Men's Hospital
and Medical School for Chinese.