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During the de-
TUESDAY APRIL 1924.
A FATHER'S livery of a notable SIR W. DEES DAVIES:am's active career have been
PRIDE, maiden speech by
Major Gwilym
1:
NOTABLE CAREER
REVIEWED.
The thirty-seven years of Sir spent in various parts of the Empire. The first public office he
Lloyd George, the listener who LEAVING FOR HOME TO-DAY. held in Pembrokeshire, which for had the greatest Interest in it was his distinguished parent, who sat by his side, following every word of a well-reasoned argument in favour of the development of electrical power in industry. The incident recalled the parallel_of his father's Mr. Austen Chamberlain's maiden speech, made in presence on April 22, 1893, on the second reading of the Home Rule Bill of that year. Then it was that Mr. Gladstone brought emotion to the usually immobile face of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, by a generous and courteous encomium. upon a speech so dear and refreshing to a father's heart." we
and
will long be remembered.
British justice has indeed been
personified in the character of Sir William Rees Dayles in Hongkong. He has displayed a fine partiality. a judiciousness and penetrating insight into all phases of the law and it is to his credit and a testi- monial to his aptitude that few. of his decisions have been appeal-
many years was represented in Parliament by his distinguished father Sir William" Davies. It must have been a matter of pride to Hongkong's Chief Justice that in two elections he actively assisted against and reversed.
Socially, Sir William has been From his first public post used his father, with gratifying Justice of the Pence and Deputy results and that-in the words of very popular and as President of the Welsh Society, which has and deed. At the dinner last Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire to the Hon. Mr. B. H. Kotewall- Chief Justice of Hongkong, Sir eventually the mantle of the honoured him doubly in speech Sir William's abilities came to Saturday, he was presented with a Welsh, Ang and on Wednesday, William Rees Davies's career has father descended on the son been as remarkable as it has been distinguished. Of the seventeen the notice of Sir William Har years he has been in Hongkong court, Chancellor of the Exche-his Welsh compatriots handed him
Chief quer 1893-95, Sir William Har-.a huge silver salver.
In sporting circles, Sir William twelve he has filled a
own court was ably characterised by Justice, enduring in his
has been chiefly identified as a words, "the cold isolation of the the Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen at the Mr. Edward Martyn, Bench.", Sir William's career has farewell dinner given by the working Steward of the Jockey MONEY, of Tulira Castle, come to an end, and with his foreign Community last Satur Club, the first Chief Justice to Ardrahan, Galway, departure to-day to enjoy a retire day:"He was an ill man to live occupy that post. In his younger man and an accomplished rider to musician, who ment at Home, he will leave a big with and did not suffer fool days he was an enthusiastic onrs-
He was remarkable for dramatist left £30,000 directed that he
his merciless and biting enrcasm houuda. Sir William himself said. should have a paupers burial gap in the Colony. But his work gladly. after his body had been used in a dissecting-room, left: £1,000 tó his male nurse to permit him to complete his medical studies; £1,000 to his chauffeur (these bequests to have priority), his interest in two plays to George Moore'; about £10,000 for charity; new Roman £3,000 towards a
at Galway; Catholic cathedral £5,000 to Vicent O'Brien, musi
Bequests, ex- cian, of Dublin, cept the first two, to be abated proportionately to the amount of the estate, if that be inadequate. Sir Henry Kimber, of Lans. down Lodge, Wandsworth, S.W., solicitor M.P-left, exclusive of other bequests, two years' wages to my trusted head gardener," a life annuity of £100 to his nurse and housekeeper, £105 each to his friend E. P. Williams; 50 guineas to his old clerk, William Thistleton. He left £394567.
the reclamation now progressing, and at Kowloon, with seats here and there, where gentlemen, who, in their singular persons would probably describe themselves as Paterfamilias, could take himself his wife, and his family, for gentle walks in the cool of the evening, thus helping a little to make life less irksome during the most trying part of the year. If we can have a garage for the few, let us have promenades for the many. Under what terms the Hongkong Cricket Cluh holds its ground, know not It is not used in the evening. Could not this delight- ful, and valuable, strip of land, be suitably lighted in the evening. and a few chairs placed on its very smooth and very green sward? Someone might then be tempted to engage our very excellent Military band and we should at once have coolness and the sounds that are said to comfort us. Blake Pier has about two or three sets of seats available for those willing to pay a cent to sit on them. This fact may not be generally known, It may not be generally known that on Blake Pier are to be had, as a natural consequence of its situation, some of the most cooling moments that it is possible to conceive. Perhaps the number of the seats might be increased; or better still, private enterprise might be encouraged to build on top of the pier, a place that would be a rendezvous in the summer the desired when coolness is object, and which could also be available in the winter for social the newly-appointed dictator has events of a more restricted nature for bidden it.
formerly Conservative
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boom is over. One THE MAH of the biggest stores JONGG in London has only sold four sets since Christmas, this although the game is such a craze in Philadelphia that
There are lots of reasons for the failure of this much-boonied game.
so much building of walls and counting of things; no two people play with the same rules.
than those which attract their hundreds. These are mere It is dull say Londoners, there is skeleton suggestions that require a little thought 'and more action to bring them to life. We do not think they are unreasonable.
Welfare Work.
IN THE GLOOM.
So all sorts of sharp people are
The Chief Justice retires at a at the expense of all about him" that it did not seem so very long going about with rules of their
He is and therefore it was a great own, rules which they only suggest comparatively early age. when they have won, so that when 51, but ill health has forced him tribute to the tact and-firmness of age that he used to ride ponies on they have a good hand they to seek a less severe climate. His he Colony's Chief Justice that he the highways of Hongkong, which "double" it on some pretext or seventeen years' service in the bundled Sir William Harcourt for in these days, were practically so many years without reaching unfrequented. But he would say another, and get away with the Colony has been full of events and
an open rupture. This is a tribute that he would be a bold man who proceeds. No one knows all the the five years when he was We do not know if our large rales, so the sharp has an easy time Attorney General was a stressful which has always been one of the to-day ventured on to the promin- employers of labour either of it, although few people know. and arduous period. During the Chief Justice's characteristics.ent highways of Hongkong on-a encourage welfare work amongst
It is so easy to mistake past month, Sir William has been He has exercised a tact and firm China pony.
with the many ness in his judicial capacity which their employees or are willing to allow it to be carried on, without
things in the cinema.uverwhelmed Leaning forward to manifestations of affection and has earned him the regard and undue interference with the work
talk to his feminine esteem indicated by all classes of respect of all.
A few years after Sir William's of the yard or the factory, or the time nominally occupied in doing companion, a youth drew the glow- the community who have spontan- it. At Home welfare work is, in ing end of his cigarette absently eously expressed their keen regret | Parliamentary career he many cases, a practical evidence across the shining surface in front at his departure. The last fare- appointed Attorney General for of the interest of employers in of him, A scream of anguish rang well and the inst event in the Chief the Bahamas and after five years The youth Justice's career in Hongkong was there was transferred in 1902 to be King's Advocate at Cyprus. bodies of large
workpeople, through the darkness.
had mistaken a bald head in front seen at the Council Chamber on Where the latter number thou for an ash-tray. Nothing could be Thursday last when members of Another period of five years.and
his career in Hongkong, arriving discerning truth from falsehood, a sands, it is not uncommon to have done, of course. The lad apologis- the Civil Service assembled to bid then in 1907; Sir William began just and upright judge, skilful in a place where good food can be ed by saying he had just come in, im God speed and "au revoir." had at reasonable rates; a library; and the owner of the head admitted Sir William was visibly touched: as Attorney General. It was dur-man of whom Hongkong is proud and a meeting hall or theatre that he had closed his eyes and the his goodbye was said with muching his service here (1918) that and whom Hongkong will surely where lectures are given during head had fallen back; so the in-i
But it makes life dangerous for
the vast number of men with bare '
feeling.
the dinner hour, or plays are per-cident closed: formed in the evening. That this boon is appreciated is obvious: that its effect is beneficent is also heads who now go into the cinema But Pity stays beyond question.. It would be safe to rest their eyes in the warmth Through weary days,
to say that workpeople so catered and darkness. for are in the main more con- tented and do better work than:"
the
Keeping the house of Love.
And the door is wide: And Pity's eyes Are so sadly wise
You will think it i Love inside.
-Alice Kilmer.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
APRIL 22. You'see, I have left no room for weather: yet I have observed the birth of the spring, which (tho' back- ward) is very beautiful at present-Gray.
he was knighted.
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Theatre;
Theatre;
In the seventeen years the kong, he has seen remarkable pro- Chief Justice has been in Hong- gress. In Kowloon, on the Peak, in the railway enterprise, in the University and in every direction and even as Sir William face tiously remarked at the dinner, in litigation,
Sir William has been termed a
miss when he is gone.
CANONT RAILWAY.
· POSSIBLE THROUGH
SERVICE.
LINE CLEARED OF TROOPS,
From a pro-Sun, military trans- April 22-Coronet
port officer who passed through the Pola Negri in "Passion,"
Colony yesterday, the, China. Mail April 22-Star Theatre, Kowloo; has gleaned details of the blood- "To Please One Woman,"
less campaign which has cleared 22.-World. April
the southern part of the Kowloon- "Blow Your Own Horn."
April 28-Last Concert of the Canton Railway (Chinese section) season, the Hongkong Male Voice and thus paved the way towards Choir, in St. Andrew's Hall, Kow-restoring the through service to
Canton, loon, 9.15 p.m.
SPORT.
A startling possibility--or Though you come late IF. what at the time seemed a To, the swinging gate, those who are not so considered, possibilty-is revealed by The path is straight We cannot adopt similar methods Lord Haldine in an interview in Hongkong perhaps, but it might with Mr. Wickham Steed, in the be possible to encourage outside "Review of Reviews." effort in welfare work that would Lord Haldame, denying the redound to the credit of those assertions which have been made Mr. & Mrs. A. W. van ANDEL met the need or the lower and initiating such a movement, and that he gave the order for mobilsa fb 5.S. "SARPEDON"
lowest levels and seems to have would result in contented work- tion on August 1, 1914, says that
people and a measure of education it was actually given on
Y He is on the staff of Commander done so in a reasonable manner, that would bring its own reward morning of August 3-
The generals were convened
SOCIAL,
Fung Kai-man who leads a detach- ao far as charges are concerned. and results. It would be interest-
for i am, in my old zoom at the MARRIAGE. »
Asquith wrote a
April 23.-Carnival at Repulsement of General Lau Tsun-wan's
From Shek War Office.
army. The Government's action in the ling to know what percentage of
Kwangsi note on the Sunday night, 1760.
Bay Hotel HILL-LIDDELL-AtLausanne, matter. must be commended. It workpeople in some of our great
the French
April 23.-Tiffin in Hongkong lung, the railway town 40 miles August 2, to Switzerland, on 17th April,
the percentage may be, would it
Ambassador, M.. Paul Camban,
Hotel, on St. George's Day, 1 p.m. by rail to Canton, they moved April 28-Dance at Peak Club, against Lin Yin-hung who con-. Thomas William Hill, MC has seen a need and has met it. yards were vaccinated. Whatever
telling him of our decision
trolled Samchun and Namtau (of Bradley & Co., Ltd., Would that it could see other not be safe to say it would have
which, of course, was only. con
9:16 p.m.
situated just beyond the British Hongkong), and son of Mr. needs and meet them as speedily. heen greater if, during the usual
tingent a precaution against and Mrs. R. H. Hill, of 10, Might it not, for instance, make noon respite, competent persons
the eventuality of a German
April 26.-Billiards Champion- border. Before they could get into ship for Flo Kom-tong Cups at touch, Lin had moved off to Kensington Gardens, London,
Invasion of Belguru. But after and women, where women. are
preserve the alignment with Chan the note had been sent to M.
Palace Hotel, Kowloon, 9 p.m.. to Rosalind Tirrell, third some endeavour to meet the need could have lectured to the men- daughter of the late Mr. John of the vast majority who are not employed on the aim of the
Cambon, we had a very anxious
April 26.-Sixth tournament of Kwing-ming's army which had Lectures. quarter of an hour...
the Hongkong Boxing Assen. at retreated because developments In Fukien threatened their base at Liddell and Mrs. Liddell of fortunate enough-even if some Government in getting people to
The Prime Minister could not Shanghai.
of them were willing, to live on the undergo vaccination?
Cheung Chow In the discharge of thy place setTheatre Royal, 9.16 p.m. remember whether he had not
Two locomotives have been Peak and the levels adjacent to it. on sanitation would also not come amiss, whilst the theatre move-
put the note into a printed before thee the best examples, for
April. 23-Lammert Bros., at 3 wrecked by the retreating troops to auffer less discomfort occasion-wient in connection with Chinese
envelope addressed to the imitation is a globe of precepts.
And after a time set before thee Lyemoon Villas, Mody Road, and a third is lying on its side on German Ambassador! ed by the hot weather, which should also not be despised.
Presently, however, we had a thine own example, and examine Kowloon, household furniture, the rails. There will be little difficulty in getting this out of the seems now to have set in. True common complaint of one of our
Joyous ring on the telephone thyself strictly, whether thou 2.45 p.m. it cannot divert the spicy breezes preachers is that we take no notice of the thousands around us; they
from Cambon, who had received didst not best at first. Neglect April 24.-Lammert Bros. at way but a steel bridge further that touch the highlands of the serve our purpose in certain direc-
the note. Se our anxiety was not also the exataples of those Sales Rooms, miscellaneous goods, down has been badly damaged and will take some days, to repair. relléved. Island-alas there are no high tions, and there the contact begins ;
But supposing the note had been that have carried themselves ill in 10.30 a.m. lands in Kowloon to the baked and end. It is a very true con-
station when the anti-Sun men left tention. Some have seen the put into the wrong envelope! It the same place, not to set off thy-
to direct thyself what to avoid
was also done at the Samchum and the telegraphic apparatus at Namtau has been removed,. April 80,Twenty-seventh an- With the establishment or nual meeting of shareholders of the leader's headquarters at Samchun Chinn Provident, Lonn & Mortgage, the whole line is now in pro-Sun Co. Ltd., B. George's Building, hands and it will not be long 6 Connaught Rond, 11 am. before the train service is resum- May 6-Forty-third meeting of ed. This detachment gets no pay, the LC.S.N. Co., Ltd., at Messrs, from Canton and is entirely. Jardine Matheson's Offices, It'am, dependent on local revenue.
China Mi
SONOLONG TURZUAŤ, APRIL 27, 1924
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The Government has met a need dwellers in the humid atmosphere necessity of carrying on the little would have been one of the most self by taxing their memory, but 14 Torres Buildings, Kinberley Rd..Our informant says that damage :
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in building a garage for the of Hongkong and the mainland; schools which are dotted about the amazing blunders in bistory. benefit of those who possess motor but it might do something to make place, to teach those of the poorer cars in the Peak
district, it easier for us all to enjoy the class the elements of education, hut beyond that nothing is done. Although we imagine more than breezes of say the sea-front, which to teach them the elements of To-day's Poem. nine-which is the number of are there for the asking How right livingand, dare we bay, It? Reference has right thinking. There is an compartments available are might it do so? fortunate enough to number a car already been made to the need for opportunity here for some public Love goes in their worldly possessions, the provision of prozaenades, spirited body to initiate a move. As the wind blows, ment that should earn the And no man krowa pilvate enterprie has worthily particularly in connection with approval of all.
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