Obituary Notices. 
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very outset, a career which promised so much has been cut off. 
What we have lost as a friend not a few are but too well aware, 
and it is not so easy to tell. Little did we think when we said 
good-bye to him on his departure for China that we had bidden 
farewell for ever to one who was the best of comrades and truest of 
friends. 
