PAHANG, Sultan of (see: MAATHON,
II. H. SIR AHMAD SHAH).
PAGET, Ralph Spencer (BANGKOK), C.M.G.; H.B.M. Minister; b. Nov. 26, 1864; s. of Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, G.C.B. Educ.: Eton. Nominated Attaché, 1888; appoin- ted to Vienna, 1888; to Cairo, 1889; employed at Zanzibar, 1891-92; transferred to Washington, 1892; to Tokyo, 1893; promoted, 2nd Sec-
retary, 1895; transferred to Cairo,
1899; to Munich, 1900; to Con- stantinople, 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., Oct, 18, 1891; Major, April 1, 1900. Club: Hongkong,
Address: Military Headquarters,
Hongkong.
P’AN’HSIAO-SU (KANSU), ex-Governor;
native of Hunan. Prefect of
Ti-lma, Kansu; Chen-ti Tao, do., 1896; Judicial Commissioner, do. spring, 1901; Financial Com- missioner, New Dominion, Jan.,
P
1901; Governor, do., Oct., degraded and sent to work on roads for peculation, Sept., 1905.
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PARDON, Edward R. S. (NAGASAKI),
Journalist; b. Turnchapel, South Devon, 1873, 4th 8. 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.E., Manager, Hongkong Ire
Co., Ltd.; b. 1845, at Glasgow, Scotland. Served apprenticeship as Mechanical Engineer at Dal- mouach 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 Hong- kong Ice Co. from 1884. Address:
East Point, Hongkong.
PARLETT, Harold George (NAGASAKI), 1st class Assistant, H.B.M. Con-