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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (JUNE) 1906-7.

was brought about in circum- stances described in Mitford's

"Tales of old Japan". Decora- tion: 4th class order of Rising Sun. Address: Tokyo, Japan.

HARGREAVES,

William

(KUALA

KANGSAR), M.A.; Educationalist, Federated Malay States Education Department. Educ.: Trinity Col- lege, Dublin, M.A. Assistant Master, Mannamead School, Ply.

mouth, 1878; assistant Master, St. John's School, Letherhead, 1879- 1891; Head Master, Penang Freo School, 1891-1904; Head Master,

Malay Residential School for sons

of Rajahs, since Jan. 1, 1905. Clubs: Penang; Town, Penang; New, Taiping. Address: Malay Residential School, Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Federated Malay States.

HARKER, Bernard Brotherton

(HONGKONG), A.M.I.C.E.; Civil Engineer; b. 1862. Educ.: Wim- borne Grammar School. Engaged on engineering works (railway and

water) in Brazil and Argentine Republics, 1881 to 1893. From 1894 to date in practise in Hongkong. Club: Hongkong. Address: Hong- kong.

HARMAND, Jules Francois (Tokyo),

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for France; b. Oct. 23, 1845; m. Dec. 19, 1878, to Therése Grabrielle Farjas. Educ.: Lycee, Versailles. Was a member of the scientific and archæological expedi- tion to Cambodia, 1873; the expedi-

tion

in Tonkin with Francis

Garnier, 1873-4; the scientific

expedition in Indo-China, 1875-6-7;

Har

Consul and Commissaire for France

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in Siam, 1831-2-3; Commissaire-Gén- èral in Tonkin and Ann ım, 1833-4, (in this capacity signed the Treaty of Hué in Aug., 1833); Consul- General for France at Calcutta, 1885-90; Minister for France in

Chili, 1893-1; Minister for France

in Japan, 1891-1905; was in charge of interests of Russia in Japan during the Russo-Japanese war. Publications: "Laos et Popula- tions Sauvages de l'Indo-Chiue," 1830-1; Ethnographic de l'Indo- Chine," 1881; "Tra le Introduction

de India de Sir John Strachey," 1891; Question du

du Tonkin,"

1835, and numerous contributions

to publications of Geographical, Anthropological and Commercial

Societies of Paris. Decorations:

Comm. Légion d'Honneur; Grand

Cross of St. Anne (Russia); G. C. of Isabella Catholica (Spain); G. C. of Double Dragon (China); G. C. of

Cambodia; G. C. of Dragon (Annam); G. C. of Couroune (Siam); G. C. of Rising Sun (Japan), etc. Address: French Legation, Tokyo, and 225, Faubourg St. Honoré,

Paris.

HARPER, Adolphus Alexander Francis (SELAMA), Surveyor; b. Nov. 25, 1855. Surveyor of irriga- tion works, Ceylon, 1880; Field Assistant Surveyor, Straits Settle-

ments, 1881;

1881; Surveyor, British

North Borneo, 1883, Surveyor,

Straits Settlements, 1834; District Surveyor, Kinta, 1887-1889; assis- tant Surveyor, Kuala Kangsar, 1894; District Surveyor, Lirut, Matang, Krian and Selama, 1903-

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