ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY AND
THE HON THAW
CHEAD
TIFFIN AT THE CLUB,
As mentioned in our Saturday's issue the members of the Committee of St. Andrew's Society and a few Scottish friends entertained at tiffie, at the Hongkong Club, the Hon. T. H. Whitehead, who is shortly leaving for home
Mr. H. W. Robertson took the chair and the croupier was Mr. Robert Shewan. On the right of the Chairman were, the Hon. T. H. White hoad, Mr. G. W. F. Playfair, Mr.T. H: Reid, Mr. David Wood (Hon. Secretary), and on the left Capt. G. C. Anderson (Past President), Mr. W. Danby, Mr. D. E. Brown, and Mr. W. D. Graham, Among those present were-Hon, A. M. Thomson (Colonial Treasurer), Hon. H. W. F. Trefusis, A. D. C. Capt. Douglas Messrs. D. R. Law, J, L. Houston, W. Kidd, Andrew Forbes (Hon. Treasurer), T. R Cochrane, S. B, C. Ross, R. F. Jobston, John Latte, W. J. Newland, A. S. Anton, H. W. Fraser, W. M. Graham, F. S. Fulcher, Stewart, and Dr. R. Gibson. After tiffin the Chairman made touching reference to the late David Gillies and then submitted the
The Chairman said Gentleman, I have the honour, and it is my great pleasure to give you the toast of our President and guest, the Hon. Thomas Henderson Whitehead. It is hardly necessary that I should dilate upon his many sterling qualities, for Mr. Whitehead has not spent 20 years of a more than usually energetic life in Bongkong without having afforded the ¿Colony practical proof of his marked ability
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1902,
good wishes for the future from the host of friends and well-wishers he leaves behind. The members of The Hongkong St. Andrew's Society desire that their President should re ceive a small memento which will serve to mark their appreciation of the excellent sercise yeilds, to brief snipe vice he has rendered the Society. On their behalf I ask you, Sir, to accept
sana in corpore sano" is a proverb but the preservation of the "mens sana the corpus sanum" is essential attribute my continuous good health and physica! "fitness" referred to by Mr. Robertson, the tonic which Polo exer
SHOOTING TRIPS.
on the Deep Bay and Shapat heung valleys, to ANNA SILVER QUAICH,
Isunting quail partridge and woodcock on the which, by the way, is still in the silversmith's island and the mainland, and an occasional hands, and will be forwarded to you later on.visit to the Canton West River after the wily The members are much disappointed that your sudden departure prevents them from holding a public function with formal presentation of the quaich, but, I feel sure that you will none the less appreciate the gift and the hearty goo will which accompanies it. Gentlemen, I give you the very good health of our President. Mr. Whitehead. May good health and success
continue to attend him.
The Hon. T. H. Whitehead said:-Mr. Robertson and brother Scotchmen-Before endeavouring to reply to the generous referen ces made about myself, I desire to add my personal expression of deep sorrow at the sad news received in the Colony a few days ago of the sudden death of one of the Past Presidents of our Society who left Hongkong last month hale and hearty, and whom we thought would have years before him in which to enjoy his well earned retirement from active business. Like all of us Mr. Gillies had bis shortcomings, but his genuine qualities largely preponderated. Many of us here to-day feel that by his lamented death, we have lost a warm hearted friend, whom to know was to respect and admire. He was
A TYPICAL SCOTSMAN
China pheasant. Words can but inadequately express my feelings of pride when elected to the bonourable position of President of St.. An tinued success during my tenure of office is drew's Society last year, but the Society's con-
not due to my services but mainly if not entirely to the efforts of our popular and inde. fatigable Honorary Secretary, Mr. David Wood. Any man might well feel proud of to- day's proceedings while the manifestation of your good-will and confidence in me and the proposal of members to present me with a Quaich are and will continue to be most highly appreciated. Though fully conscious of my shortcomings I offer you my sincere thanks. No St. Andrew's night will ever pass without my thinking of and being present in spirit with Scotchmen assembled in the City Hall here. I will carry away with ma
FRAGRANT MEMORIES
of the overpowering fascination of this "dot on the ocean" and of the affection of friends re- maining in and about the scenes where I have happily lived many of the best years of a life- time. You may rest assured I will do what little I can to keep alive Scottish National sentiment and national spirit so essential to
Let me say adeiu with a heavy heart, with heartfelt thanks renewed, and with my fervent wishes for the health and happiness of out and all.
Auction,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
CHE Undersigned have recolved instructions
from Dr. HARTIGAN, to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION, within his Residence "Scarteen'!! McDonnell Road,
on
THURSDAY, the 5th June, 1902,
at = P.M.,
THE WHOLE OF HIS VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Comprising:- TAPESTRY COVERED DRAWING
TEAKWOOD DRESSING TABLES and ROOM SUITE, CHIPPINDALE CHAIRS, MARBLE TOP TABLES, WHATNOTS, WARDROBES with GLASS, OVERMAN- BLE TOP WASHSTANDS, CROCKERY TELS CARPETS, INDIAN RUGS, MAR.
and GLASS DOUBLE
WARE, ENGRAVINGS, STEADS with WIRE and HAIR MAT- and SINGLE IRON BED.
TRESSES, &c, &c.
ALSO: wood & SONS, London,
One COTTAGE PIANO, by JOHN BROAD-
AND TWO BICYCLES, One SHANGHAI RICK- SHA and a great quantity of PLANTS in POTS.
TERMSA-Usual.
The above are now on View.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 2nd June, 1902.
Notice of Firm.
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LIMITED.
as Banker, Councillor, Sportsman. With your i of the old school-manly and straightforward, the best interests of our world wide Empire, HAVE This Day RESUMED CHARGE
permission, I should like to read you a brief
resume of
OUR PRESIDENT'S CAREER, which, better than words of mine, shall bring home to you that he is, a son of whom old Scotland may well be proud. Mr. Whitehead commenced his business career in 1867 by serving an apprenticeship of 4 years to the law
sincere and open handed, active of brain and fertile of ideas, ready to acknowledge worth wherever it was found. Above all, he was an hopest man, and "an honest man is the noblest work of God."
Now gentlemen, allow me to try to acknow. edge the over generous remarks our Chair. man has been good enough to make regarding
Other toasts were-"The Chairman," by Mr. Shewan, who coupled with it the health of Mrs. Robertson and family; "Our Guests," coupled with the name of My, Danby, by the Hon. A..
Hon. Secretary" (Mr., David Wood), by Mr.
in the toast. G. W. F. Playfair, who included. Mrs. Wood
in the office of a firm of solicitors in Scotlarid, myself and to thank you all for the very hearty M. Thomson, Colonial Treasurer; and "The
and this was followed by 18 months experience in a mercantile office in Liverpool. In 1873 he joined the London office of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China and in the Autumn of 1874, began his Eastern life by service with the Bombay Branch, From Bombay he went to Calcutta, and thence in the Autumn of 1875 tó Shanghai. In 1877 he was proinoted Accountant and returned to the Bombay Agency, where he remained through out the crisis which followed the disastrous failure of the City of Glasgow Bank. 1880'saw. him appointed Agent at Hankow, and, in the Autumn of that year, he opened a new Agency of the Bank at Yokohama. Then followed short periods af service as Agent respectively in Shanghai, Bankow, Singapore, Saigon, Hongkong, and Feochow, and subsequently a year's well cared furlough at home, Mr. Whitehead returned in October 1883, and from that year until the present time the Hongkong Branch has had the benefit of his experienced management. So much for his Banking career, In September 1890 the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce elected him as their representative to the Legislative Council, and he would have completed his second term of office in September of this year. Amongst the MANY REFORMS
Mr. Whitebead has from time to time sought to initiate; I would mention the Petition from the Ratepayers in Hongkong to the House of Commons, asking for Reform and a Syatem of representative Government. He was mainly responsible for getting up this petition, and it was entrusted to his care when at home in 1894/95, where it had his able advocacy. On more than one occasion Mr. Whitehead has had the honour of lectusing under the auspices of the Royal Colonial Institute, and when last at home, he also had an opportunity of addressing the Liverpool Chamber of Com merce on important commercial queations. In January, 1901, Mr. Whitehead was admitted a member of the most Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, having attended the Hilary and eaten the usual number of dinners term, He left London early in 1900 and visited New York, Washington, Mexico, the Pacific Coast, And the Philippine Islands in connection with the Bank's business before resuming charge in Hongkong In July roor. Mr. Whitehead has served on many Commissions and Committees, Including the enquiry into the working of the Tung Wa Hospital, the Po Leung Kuk Society, Insanitary Properties, etc, and he bas played Polo for upwards of 20 years regularly and con tinuously. There, Gentlemen, you have 20 outline of the life of this
way in which you have responded to the toast of my health. Let me assure you I leave Hongkong on the present occasion with very sincere regret, and for reasons which need not now be entered into. The last words of the great Empire builder, the late Cecli Rhodes and the most striking.figure in the modern his- tory of the British Empire are peculiarly appli- cable to the local situation “so much to do, so little done. The Colony is on the eve of great improvements which must have a perma tent beneficial effect upon its future. You who remain bere, many of you young men, will participate in the
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COMING CHANGES.
These having been responded to, the cam-
final toast to the health of the departing guest. pany sang "Auld Lang Syne" and drank a
THE CHARTERED BANK AND THE
HON. T. H. WHITEHEAD.
PRESENTATION DY THE STAFF.
The clerical staff of the Hongkong branch of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, have presented to the manager (the Hon. T. H. Whitehead) an address most beautifully engraved on parchment.
We understand that Mr. Whitehead, in ac-
envy you the opportunities you will have of guiding aright the forces that will make for the consolidation of British residents and interests not in Hongkongcepting it, said that nothing had ever given him merely but in the great Empire of China, greater delight or more complete gratification, with which this port is so closely connected and he should appreciate and treasure it while and intimately related.
he lived.
The following is a copy of the address:-- Hongkong, 29th May, 1902. To the Honourable.
THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD, M. L. C.,
Manager, Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Hongkong.
'Needless to say these changes include local sanitation, adequate water storage, tramways, a twopenny tube connecting our little island with the main land, the trunk railway between Peking Han- kow and Canton, and the Canton-Kowloon branch. The latter will enable people to travel from this to Canton in about three hours, in- stead of an all day journey. Mr. Chairman, with the gratitude of a full heart, I sincerely thank you for your allusions to my endeavours on behalf of the Colony.. The interests of the Chartered Bank have ever held the first place in my heart and thoughts, but in my leisure time and to the best of my ability. I have
WORKED FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD
and the promotion of the commerce of the port. In this I felt I was only doing my duty. My great regret is that I have accomplished so little, but I have some sense of satisfaction that good seed has been sown and that those who come after will reap the harvest. It is not an" easy matter to serve the public, and to give satisfaction to every one. Some may not have approved of my efforts, but I can at least say that all my actions in public, as in private life have been devoid of personal vainglory or self seeking and what I have done or attempted has been for the public benefit. In my opinion it is the duty of every man, so far as op portunity comes in his way to MAWR HELP THE COMMUNITY in which he lives, to a statelof greater public efficiency. Only the other day Lord Rosebery said "There are two plain obvious duties which are inherent is, every British sub- ject. The first is to take part if necessary in the defence of the country and, in the second place, not to avoid or shrink He has ever been in the forefront of the any public or municipal duty which may fall business world, and in the battle front of upon him. I believe it to be the plain and Legislative Circles, yet, despite the enormous obvious duty of every man of capacity, educa- amount of valuable and lasting work hation and public spirit to try and take part in the has lavished upon these and other public government of the place in which he lives." interests, be is no stranger to the realms There is still much to be done and as Scote- of sport and goodfellowship. I have not
men have played their part here as they have. the slightest, doubt that Mr. Whitehead done eirewhers I hope the sons of St. Andrew. attributes much of his fitness, abd, pos will never hesitate to bestir themselves for the sibly, consequent success in life to the game public good. The very best aid to good govern- of course refer to Polo-which, after a worry;
ment is a healthy opposition. With practical ing day in office and Council, bas, the next and enlightened government there is conclusive morning, brought him up smiling and ready
evidence on every side which indicate that for fresh music Last mail Spectator tells of,
there is much progress ahead of a man whose breakfast, Winter or Summer, int variably consisted of's cup of coffee and two damns! Wellst don't think ha could have Polo ayer, at any rate our guest le not
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SIR, On the occasion of your departure from Hongkong, we, who, have served under you for many years, wish to express our feeling of deep gratitude for all the kindness you have shown us. Amidst all the cares and worries of a very busy life you have always found time to look into our little grievances and remedy them, and now we thank you for the interest you have taken in our welfare
Although we know that you are but going to the proper sphere fit for your abilities and vast experience to assume chief control at Head office that you will always be solicitous for the -welfare of this Branch, and we may therefore still expect to feel the good influence of your rule, yet we deplore the loss to us of a chief so, tactful, courteous, just and impartial.
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.A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Sécretary, Hongkong, 30th May, 1901.
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feel the loss for it is entirely owing bene. A
Every community of Hongkong will alike almost unaided exertions that so many bene ficial changes have been wrought upon this Golony, but none can better appreciate your seeing what labours it entailed, how unspar work than we who have had the opportunity of ingly you have devoted to it all your time and how little rest you give yourself when you think there is yet something to be done for the public good.
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A. M. ESSABHOY.
We know that a life already distinguished by most usefully spent and we feel sure that successHongkong, jrat May, 1902. so, many noble works will ever continue to be will always crown your endeavours, and we, who are proud to have had you as our chief will follow your further achievements with inanite pleasure.
With our wishes for a very pleasant voyage, a bright and prosperous future full of happiness, we would beg of you to accept the accompany souvenir as a token of the sincere esteem and regard from your clerical staff.
We remain, Sir,
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A return showing the number of cases of notified as occurring in the Colony of Hong- Communicable Diseases which have been. kong, during the week ended the 31st May, 1902;
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