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28. YEARS A GOVERNOR
Sir Hubert Murray, who is re tiring from the Governorship of Papua at the are" of 78, han bad the longest record of service in one territory of any Colonial Gover
nor.
PURE DEMOCRACY THE STATE WITHOUT STRONG MEN
F. S. OLIVER'S POLITICAL
TESTAMENT.
(By J. B. Firth)
The
Aristotle's "Contemplative I Man" uld survey the mold of British New Guinen became an Australian Colony in 1906. Mr. modern politica his heart, I think, Hubert Murray, as he then was, would be heavy within him." became its first Lieutenant-Gover- Stagirite himself might well say nor and judges :
that he had warned the world in Before settling down in this his "Politics" more than 2,000 wildest, of South Sea islands, Sir years ago what, in given circum- Hubert obtained a double first instances, would certainly come to Classics at ·Magdalen College, pass,
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ORDEAL BY WALKING
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Return Of Violence
Is It wonder that philosophic Conservatives and Liberals are
than was and still a good- humoured nonesuch matter-of fact idealist-optimist and pugi« list-despiser of preparationa and precautions-lover of his ease-lover also of adventure lover most of all of Englands. light sleeper when England's. honour or interests are concern- ed-prompt as lightning—and In resolute self-sacrifice a stayer to the end."
Gladstono's Faults
"Gladstone resembled and even exceeded Bolingbroke, Fox and the others in the restlessness of his mind, in the impression he restlessness of his mind, in the impression he produced of furious energy, in his copious misuse of rhetoric and argument, but above all in his impotence when he had to deal with facts. Facts, to the Bolingbrokian, are pliable thinga that can be bent
this way or that, plastic things that can be' squeezed at the orator's will into the most surprising shapes, things that can even be converted into vapour and blown away." H Deadly but true. There never
such a complete casulat as "Mr.
where he was slightly senior to his It may be objected that Aristotle brother, Professor Gilbert Murray."cuts no ice" to-day. Then let me He practised at the English bar, diainter a saying of Macaulay. I and commanded a battalion in the have long been convinced that In- If any worshippers of "Mr. G South African war,
atitutions purely democratic must still survive they may resent Mr. sooner or later destroy liberty or Oliver's presentation of their idol. civilisation or both.”
Yet he is as fair to his great at- I 'recalled "the Contemplative tributes as he is'merciless' towards Sir Hubert is an ardent anthro Man" because one of the best the deadly faults which' cost tha pologist, and his administration in examples of that rate type, the late country dear. He says: New Guinea was liberal and Mr. F. S. Oliver, who died six] strongly pro-native. He was proud months ago, has left a "Political of the fact that for many years he Testament." It is to be found in never found it necessary to the third volume of his work, "The execute one of his subjects, al-
Endless Adventure.” though cannibalism and head- Mr. Oliver posessensed the hunting are among the most popu-double qualification required for] lar Papuan sports.
the title. He was a man both of He invented a punishment which theory and of practice; of action The found an effective deterrent and of thought; of the world of from all kinds of law-breaking. affairs and of the quiet study, Hej He is very tall and very strong-could be trusted, therefore, before The punishment consisted of mak-generalising to know when a casel ing the criminal walk with him on was established. his tours of the interior. ACKNOWLEDGMENT [the object of eliminating the Sir Hubert maintained a steady mass of redundant shipping four miles an hour through the ...Mrs. M. H.. Chaun and family which prevents freights from im- tropical forest. At the end of a gratefully tender their thanks to all proving. Their proceedings will month of this ferocious exercise anxious Mr. Oliver, it is true,
G." He could sincerely believe their relatives and friends for their be closely watched for the first no native was brave enough to sin admits that "it is ignoble to be al- ways fussing about one's Own attendance at the funeral and floral signs of joint action among coun- again.
threat. Yet after all we each anything he liked--dreadful en tries which all have idle ships
dowment when added to a burning have but one. It felt fairly, secure ambition to climb what Bacon calls languishing for want of TE-REMORSE
before the new evangels appeared. the winding stair," a moral fervour munerative cargoes.
One of Sir Hubert's strangest But now this organ possesses no
always at the point of incandescence-- A Romance Of Industry stories is of an old servant who more sanctity or immunity that it and a passion for power which grew became converted to Christianity. Jdid in the years 1572 and 1798"- 25 the hands became ever less One day this man pald a visit to a the years of St. Bartholomew's Day steady to wield it. Mr. Oliver re- Hong Kong, Thursday, Feb. 21, 1935 King Ghazi of Irak was
savage tribe some distance from and Terror, ·
turns to his victim,again and again.." principal figure in the
Port Moresby. They entertained "And if we are predestined,"| ceremony that celebrated the him royally, but next morning he says Mr. Oliver, "to a violent end, completion of the pipe-line from learned with horror that the chief as the Commudists are sometimes Kirkuk to the sea. Even in a dish had been "long.pig" (man).
so indiscreet as to remind us. it jage of engineering marvels this
His remorse was so great that
will not matter much who is tha laying of more than 1,100 miles
he wasted away and eventually executioner--the highbrow, ál: A gratifying tale of substantial of seamless steel pipe through
softness and compassion, in al improvement is told by the land which is desert for the died despite all Sir Hubert's con-
Isolations.
Trilby hat, or that predatory figures of Great Britain's over- greater part of the distance
patriot, the lawyer revolutionary. the Imports, takes its place among seas' trade for 1934.
or the professional butcher romances of industry. which include raw materials, are great
who takes his wages and line has cost up by over £57,000,000, exports To lay the
rifles the corpses. On the whole, by £28,000,000 and re-exports by £10,000,000; has involved the
I should prefer the last of these £2,000,000. The exports are the co-operation of British, French,
three, for he would talk less than highest since 1930, and the im-Dutch, and American capital, and
the others and would not be so Previous to has called for epic labour from ports since 1931.
likely to make a botch of his job." the latter year imports had been men drawn from all the countries Somebody has remarked that people Who, then, can save us from the rising fast, while exports were through which the line runs with keen hearing can distinguish a falling precipitously. The form-With its completion ofl will pass Highland regiment on the march by three-headed monster? There is er tendency
summarily from the wells in Trak direct to the short swinging step that sets the only one person, in the last resort, was
kilts swirling. Another noticeable little who can. That is the Commun checked by the measures taken the terminal ports of Tripoll and peculiarity is the sound of the bagpipes. Politician, the plain man with a by the National Government, Haifa.
vote.
tributes.
The China Mail
British Trade Still Expanding
the
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Your Daily Smile!
Trains are at last catching up with
The streamlined. our train caller. announcement has been standard. In American depots for years.
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AT ST. ANDREW'S
WHITE-WOOLLEY
INTERPORTER AS BRIDE
WELL-KNOWN LADY HOCKEY
the gravitas in demeanour of a. "Gladstone seemed to combine
in judgment of a revivalist mise- Venetian Senator with the levity;
Aloner" 3M
"He walked abroad in blinkers,. „öften blindfold.” ⠀
"He practised with great gusto and self-complacency a kind of high ecclesiastical cunning such.. as priests use to divide their col- These are hard sayings of one leagues and destroy their rivals/", who stood high above the common stature of public men, but contrived always with the purest intentions
In the Councils of Europe time atter to let Great Britain down so badly
time.
The Speculatists
I pass by with reluctance, many...
He is a kind of mongoose. Mr. another brilliant "Character" by Oliver suggests, "which if you give Mr. Oliver in order to refer briefly him a free run may clear your to those sections of his "Political house completely of the vermin, and Testament" in which he discourses, in any case will keep their numbers of "the politician's necessary: mental down," thoroughly enjoying mean- and moral equipment. There must be, he says, ambition, to rise, and. time the hunt and the scules.
no too great squeamishness as to Few Can Govern
the rather dirty work in the scrum-
It will be gathered that the au-mages. Patriotism, too, is an, es-
even while the export trade was The opening of the line is not CHARMING WEDDING still being battered by the general to be regarded simply as. an en- economic blizzard and by the gineering achievement. If hopes great frantic efforts of economic na-are fulfilled it will be a tionalism everywhere to sell factor in the progress towards Great Britain full civilisation of the peoples without buying. is once more doing the largest who inhabit the arid desert re- export trade in the world, but gions which it crosses. As oll she has a long way to go to get flows out of Irak at the rate off back to the peak figures, which 4,000,000 tons a year, so wealth some think will never be reached will flow into the country, work
A charming wedding took place thor knew his own mind and was sential quality in the politician, again.
will be provided, and it is a rea-at the St. Andrew's Church this not afraid to speak it His Inten- and the author justly says that More than half the total In-sonable hope that the Bedouin afternoon when Miss Margaret tion was to build a series of bridge the leaders of the commonalty crease in imports of £57,000,000 will be gradually weaned from Woolley, the third daughter of the over the river of events and con- have as good a right to rankas. is in raw materials, the rises his nomadic habits. Certainly a
late Mr. W. H. Woolley of High-neet up Walpole's day with our own statesmen as have the leaders of both in wood and in rubber be new stability will be given to bridge, Somerset, and Mrs. Woolley Alast he found himself "pressed for the older parties. ports machinery, iron and steel, communities at each end of the Mr. George Alexander White, son clumsy pontoon part way across to Trade Union leaders, he lashes of Hong Kong, became the wife of time and could only throws But while he pays this tribute ing over £9,000,000. In her ex-Irak itself and prosperity to the woollen and worsted yarns, and line. The political results of lay-
of Mr. F. White and the late Mrs: the stream before he himself was out furlously at those of another vehicles take the lead. Of cot-ing the line may finally be White of Birmingham. The Rev. suramoned to another crossing, kidney who have no tincture of tons the best that can be said is counted greater than the com-
Yet there are pages here which English patriotism" in their com- that the outgoing trade was mercial consequences. Yet these J. R. Higga officiated. alightly better than last year, latter must be notable, for they The bride is the well-known will be read and reread like the now position" but nearly £4.000,000 worse than involve the bringing of one of Hong Kong lady hockey Interporter, famous introduction on "Politics in 1982 itself a very bad year. the great oilfields of the world who scored Hong Kong's winning and Politicians" in the first volume Considering the severe restraints into touch with the ever-increas-goal against the Shanghal Ladies, of The Endless Adventure."
while the bridegroom is a prominent It is Mr. Oliver's sorrowful con- placed on international trade the ing market for oil.
|K.C.C. sportsman, an
clusion that few statesmen can The bride, who was riven away govern. In the topmost class of
general figures of the year are
OF NEW LIFE
Madame Chiang Supports Bible
relatively good, and are certainly FOUNDATION STONE by Dr. H. D. Matthews, wore a British statesmen he places only better than those of her trade. {rivals." Most of Britain's in-
creased business has been with]< the Dominions, especially with India and South Africa. The Ottawa Agreements" have not] achieved all that British manu- facturers hoped from them, þût
Nanking.
charming création of white lace three the elder Pitt, Disraeli and lined with white satin, with a voll Chamberlain, and in his view what of orange blossoms. She carried a distinguishes them most from the bouquet of white giediol
rent was "their intuitive under The bridesmaids were the Misses standing of the Englishman." Phyllis and Iris Woolley, sisters of "They knew him for what he the bride, and Miss Marjorle White
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CORRESPONDENCE
Lonely Reader
"[To the Editör,”"China" Mall”T
Sir,-Being lonely and very much Interested in various parts of the world I would welcome friendly cor respondence with any of your readers, of either sex.
with
inter-Imperial trade would have According to a Chinese re til organdy el coral-hes a large receptio been much less without them, port, Madame Chiang Kai-shek de ni organdy with floral head- a large reception was held in the My chief interests are Sport of
and and Mr. Runciman's series of has donated several thousand bands and carried bouquets of St. Andrew's Church Hall, the any kind, photography, and any commercial agreements also find dollars for the printing of the Old gladiolla happy couple later leaving for their general topics of the day their justification in these tablos, and New Testaments, to help the Mr. EF (Bob) Selk, the popu- honeymoon, which is being spent at shall be happy to recipr
those who write to me and send me Whether the International Ship promotion of the New Life lar YM.C.A. Assistant Secretary, Repulse Bay ping Conference, which is to be Movement
was Best Man, while Mr. Reginald The bride's going-away dress personal or scenic snapshots of read held" shortly, will achieve any In order to live a new life. Woolley, brother of the bride, off was of green crepe marocain, with ing matter in newspaper
that, fur cost,shoes.and forms. marked improvement mains to Madame Chiang feels, one must clated at the organ,
gloves to ma be Been The pr
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