HUANG TSUN-HSIEN (PEKING), Chinese Official Service; native of Kwantung; provincial graduate. Expectant Taotai and Consul-General at Singapore, 1893; Chief Secretary, Admiralty affairs, Tientsin, Jan., 1896; appointed Minister to Germany, Nov., 1896, but did not proceed; Salt Taotai, Hunan, June, 1897; Envoy Plenipotentiary to Japan, Aug., 1893, but did not proceed.