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THE HONGKONG DAILY PERSS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1928.
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anable to discharge his datics, excopt when laid aside by his last illness. Not only so, but he had seen hist in his convival moments and in the bosom of his family, and nover saw anything like the enormities of which carly commentators accused hia. [FROM QUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] -- friendship with Burns continued to the very hour of his death, for it is known that EDINBURGH, March 4th, he sat up by the bedside of the port the lat night he spent on earth. Peterkin, it will Edinburgh has conferred the highest remembered, attached the utmost im honour at its command, its "Freecora,"
to Findlater's letter. He wrote: portance distinguished Scotsuen who live upon two
cannot be impertinent to mention that early as well as later ties of association this gentleman stands so high in the con, with the town, its school, and its University tidence of the Board of Excise us to hoid
Lord Alness (Our Justice-Clerk) and Sir the highest office which it is in their power Robert Herne It was peculiarly ap-to
Mr. Findlator's testimony bestow propriate that the two he was thesis, without any exemption, the very best bet.
be honoured on the same day. They haps that exists with respect to the genera were associnted at the Bar and have been
tenor of Buras's conduct during the whole
of Excise.
colleagues in the Cabinet, and they are both time he was os of Somerset House
och Highland
"Sons of the Manse," one of the incomes from and Free Church stock, the from a Lowland and Auld Kirk fold And it may be added they are both of them "optimists," in their outlook on the secular as well as the ecclesiastical future of the country. Neither of them is a man who, forma opinions lightly or rushly: they have their hair of the national gift of pradeues along with far seeing judgement: and each of the per- through "dark and sobre pro srives the light of here and of peace abead.
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In the
Burns is entered as a diligent active oflicer. That probably represents the official report made by Findlater, who in the letter to Peterkin, referred to poet as exemplary in his atten- tion even jealous of the least im- The collector his vigilance." putation on also wrote "of Burns's convival habits, his wit and humour, his social talents, and his independent spirit, as having been perverted into Gictions of vitipusnosu bat ere hardly needs to read between the lines to see how human and lovable Burns Lori Alness, speaking from his ex-
was in
Findlater's eyes. Findlater, at any pressed his regret that the question of an man of real religio
religious
feeling and brotherly improved status for that odice had not
sympathy His published words and been settled during his tenure, and he actions prove it, Indeed, if it were not
[ն strongly urged Scotsmen not to rests he would not have been attracted so Sir Robert Horne had also his with LAIRDS AND THE LANDA
their grievance had been removed closely by Burns. denied of witnessing and taking part in a solution of the great Reparations problem before he left
Sffice
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Dill wanting peace, must "go on taken over Urie and the other domains
friendship between the increasing
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inter retaining the family 1
property in defiance of the law of primogeniture which, it must be certain cases operate conceded, harshly towards the daughters and younger sons of great landowners. In these days of heavy taxation, also, it cases slightly the burden which would otherwise fall on the shoulders of the individual owner, BIER. HORSE AS AUTHOR
plunging nearer and nearer to disaster. We are in times of great caxiety, of grave misgiving and disquiet. But there is at least one star
uf
-and the United
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over in America and in touch with its Govern ment and people. It is not idle words that he uses when he says that he found the atmosphere entirely changed, and for the better. The two lowers having "made a settlement of their mutual transactions, now stand together as the creditors of the world."
"There is scarcely any issue of milera politics upon which the two
Every one who is anybody in the political at the present time do great countries at
I hear that the intest see eye to ey." Sir Robert Horne expresses world is doing it.
recruit to the ranks of the his profounil conviction that, with the two ateurs is none other than Sir Robert Horne. politico-litter- countries pulling together, when the ques- One is glad to record the fact that his book tim of German. Reparations comes up be is not about the war. Nor is it
personal fore them for discussion, as
as inevitably it must, "there will emerge a solution of those series of revelations, with some such title as or "From Parliament great
troubles that at present affict this cis-Hillhead Idylls" tracted world." It is news brought front House to the Houses of Parliament," It is across the Atlantic Up a sure and safe mea- to be a series of studies of international senger that should give a fillip to drooping economics in the manner of Bagehct. It spirits, and re-kindle hope in the pos- sounds dry, but the book is to be for the sibilities for world progress of Anglo ordinary reader as much as for the expert. American co-operation."
WHO AND WHAT DEGUGHT AMERICA IN
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Bir said the discoveries their Principal (Sir Alfred Ewing), organisation that he set up, sad what ha discovered by means of that organisation, without brought to our knowledge things which the Fleet could not have operated successfully, without which it
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"I would prefer the joyous fatalism have been difficult for the anti-submarine of Our Klayyam to the bes in the
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America into the war.
ANOTHER WALKER CUP.
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There are now, by a happy coincidence, Walker trophies in golf on both sides of the Atlantic, and they are each identified with international aspects of the game. Tha American Cup is that which became for the firat time last year the prize for the team match between the United States and
has The other, which
recently Britain. been
the Championship Com- presented to mittee of the Royal and Ancient Club by Mr. Jaunea G. Walker of Auchendrane, Ayr
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At Templard Terrace, Dalry, Ayrshire, on the 4th March, Annie Allan, wife of the late James Taylor, Essistant superintendent, Nippon Yusen Line.
!
DISHONOURED CHEQUES.
A Legal Correspondent, writing in The Observer, says:
The case of Smith v. Cox and Co., heard club, has been better known in and settled before the Lord Chief Justice other sports than on the links, thongh has apparently created a good deal of his public spirited action clearly gloys
and surprise in that it was held that because
his
enthusiasm for the
Walker
is
Ancient
Mr. game.
the plaintiff was a private person he could Glasgow man, and it was at Loretto not get substantial damages for a dis- that bo laid the foundation of a career honoured cheque, whereas, if he had been noted in both cricket and Rugby, and at a rader such damages would have been Oxford, whither he afterwards procceded recoverable. For the enlightenment of the he gained "blue"
in both pastimes. He lay public it may be useful to point out figured in the Scottish
Rugby team that principle of law this case really England in 1882, and against Wales in following season and 19. captained upheld.
It has long been settled that if a private lesex in cricket. While he was re-
in London he used to devote his person's cheque is dishonoured by a tank on leisure from his legal work to golf at the erroneous ground that the assets of its Wimbledon. Now that the Scoto-English customer are insufficient to meet the cheque, fond has been restored to the list of that private person cannot, ordinarily re fixtures, his gift is both thoughtful and
cover any but the nominal damages of a timely.
shilling. If, on the other hand, it should be a trader whose cheque is erroneously dishonoured, it is assumed in law that bis: credit as a trader may be impaired, that nominal damages would be no compensa
A CHAMPION OF ROBERT BURNS..
An interesting ceremony reminiscent of Robert Burns' time took place in Anderston Burial Ground North Street, Glasgow, when a memorial stone was unveiled atfifo grave of top, and that he is in consequence entitled
Alexander
during the period time to substantial damages.
Exciso affiner tho was Supervisor of
Robert Burna was an Excise Officer in But if the private person alleges and can Dumfriesshire for the memorial, which is honour, then he in equally entitled with The Sandyford Burns Club prove special damage arising from the dis
Are
of silver gray granite.
the trader to substantial damages. In Dr. Carrine's Life of Bobert Burns when some cases, of course, this can be shown. published in 1500 did not give satisfaction to those who had known the poet; and when Bat in any case, in order to recover them, Mr. Peterkin issued a couro just apprecia
the special damage inust be alleged in the
tion in 1814, Findlater. wrote a vindication, claim and this was not done in Smith v which did so much to clear Burns memory | Cox and Co.
of the unjust aspersions He protested against the severity of Currie's strictures, amplified and exaggerated as these had been
Lord Balfour, concluding his Gifford
hy ending commentators, some of whom Lectares at Glasgow University. ont
of obloquy on his memory,
February 10th, said that theism must be
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