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Personalities of Old Hongkong
Mr. John Day-
Assistant
Attorney-General
BY T. PAUL GREGORY
RESIDENT of one month and twelve days Hongkong's past, who after being nominated to would undoubtedly the post.
have achieved a
career of Mr. John Day, was born at eminence in the service of Milverton, Somerset, on Decem- White sidewall tires by WHIZ for the Colony, had not fate ber 9, 1818. He was the eldest son of John and Amelia Day of ruled otherwise, was Mr. Woodland House, Wellington, John Day, barrister-at-law. Somerset, and received his He was greatly esteemed by education at the Grammar his colleagues at the Bar as School at Ilminster, under the 1 man of the soundest instruction of the headmaster, the Rev. John Allen, M.A. He judgment, distinguished
was regarded us a good classical alike for legal acumen and scholar, and if his parents had gentlemanly feeling, and been better endowed with this consequently his appoint world's goods, he would no doubt ment as Acting Attorney- have been sent either to Oxford General in 1858 by the then or Cambridge. Circumstances, however, decided that he should Governor, Sir John Bow be articled to a firm of barristers, ring, was regarded as a Messrs. Norton and Chaplin, of most judicious choice. His London. After his period of term of office, however, was apprenticeship was completed,
Middle Temple
Sald Here HONGKONG
The
HOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Rd.
on
Hongkong Telegraph. perhaps the briefest he was called to the Bar at the
record; for he died suddenly. Michalemas Term, 1839. in
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1938.
diet without years of education and encouragement.
Going on to the main meat
Starts Fino Career
the
He was now the of 21, a fully qualified lawyer, and ac-
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty
WOWSER KENNELS
pr. (1 by L'alled Fratmen Wynášenle, Iss.
"You must remember, Madon, these pedigreed dogs won't br
they'd rather starve frat."
*
Gems From An
Old Jest-Book
dumpy little volume I selected Tersely Droll from the "threepenny box" at the secondhand bookseller's was in so fout a condition that it was an the offence both to the eye and to the nose. Moreover, it was printed in no that such execrable
even with the aid of glasses ex- amination was a Inborious
But experience has taught me that
By this it might be supposed that
task.
anoymous humorist did not gree that brevity is the soul of wit, An assumption, however, that is not endorsed by his its
and pages av bio anthology, foi s
which, in the main, has a
SELF-SUFFICIENCY
NOT IN SIGHT item in the Chinese diet, the cordingly commenced the prac
obstacles to be overcome in mak- tise of his profession at Maiden- it is among such fuded and froway appeal, but which I
ch I believe is The prospects of growing in ing the Colony self-sufficient in hend, Berks, and later at Taul- examples, rather than among betterly
Consider, in the Generation.
of modern this Colony sufficient alfalfa pork are realised as insuperable. ton, Somerset. So successful preserved and more expensive speci-polilles, the retort of the celebrated For years, various well-inten- was the young barrister that both entertainment and profit when er the plern of Westminster Bridge, mens, that one is more likely to find Lord Chesterfield when asked wheth grass to form the basis of a new, tioned people have experimented during the succeeding years he bargain-hunting
in second-hand then in course of construction, were economical and nutritious diet with the object of producing a became well-known throughout book-stores.
more
and
That I
I was not wrong in this case.
from scarce and valuable works.
The
named
Реррет-
and
for the poorer Chinese popula-cross suitable for growing in the English Counties, and was ised by Joseph Smith, of
likely to be
be of stone or wood, large herds in the New Terri- accorded. the reputation of being was
by this article. My find for we have te sure," was the reply,
too many
wooden peern tion has been briefly discussedtorics. The late Lady Clara Ho for his nge "one of the best 193 High Holborn, London, In 1929 already at Westminster."
same nobleman is credited in the columns of this newspaper Tung and the Dairy Farm Com-legal minds" of the country. He and has on its title page the follow- with and raises again in the minds of pany have each presented local | continued to plead before the quaint and curbergi and Wis that he had purchased a very lively a willy answer to a friend, explana-
Pepper, who informed him tion of its purpose: thoughtful people the whole facra with boars to improve Western Circuit and Somerset dom; or The World's Jest Book; horse which
the local breed at different times Sessions
would until the year 1854, forming a rich banquet of anecdote, him. He had not yet given a name persist in flinging matter of Hongkong's self-suffi- but, as soon as a slump threaten- when he determined to try his wil, humour, and whimsicality, ex- to the brute and was at a loss to ciency in food against the evented to reduce the price of pigs, so fortune in India. Accordingly, pressly designed to set the table in select one that would suit him." of a war-time blockade. From soon did the new herd, boars he set sail for Bombay, but upon companion for a post chaser, or n
a roar, being. also, an agreeable "Why not call him what has emerged so far, it and all, depart for the slaughter his arrival, he found to his in- trip to the Nore in a steam packet. Castor?" suggested his Lordship. would seem that alfalfa grass-house for as much as they could tense disappointment that the partly original and partly selected A Death-Bed Joke a clover-like plant of the bean former Governor here, was an over-crowded; for, in addition to wil-cracker."
Sir Reginald Stubbs, profession there was already The whole arranged by an eminent
And here is the joke made on her family-has been successfully economist of some ability and
death-bed by Swift's beloved Stella. a surfeit of English barristers, grown here over a number of was also interested in the ques-
To comfort the dying woman,' her years but the stumbling block to tion of raising pigs but he and there was the horde of native
Bengalese baboos or
his physician told her:-"I hope we shnil capable, and "learned extremely its development as a human diet the then Colony Veterinary Sur-,
soon get you up the hill again," Bench
"Thanks, doctor," she replied, "but seems to be the lack of suitable geon, Major W. J. E. Mackenzie, men" who acted as advisers to decisions from the
the Indian litigants, so
that were lauded by all sections fear that before I reach the top came to the conclusion that it ground for raising large quanti-would cost far too much even opportunity for one who had of the community on account I shall be out of breath."
Swift's wit, of which my authority ties; and secondly, the consider to approach the price of the ira- been a successful English county vate interest and personal pre-relates several good stories, invari
of their being "unbiassed by pri- able care and semi-skilled treat-ported pigs. Over 450,000 pigs
lawyer was practically non-
ably had a sting in it. Here are two existent.
judice." The Government, too, examples:-Meeting in a London CHATER ROAD. ment the crop constantly re-fare brought in each year from
Kwanchowan,
was well pleased at his conduct, coffee house n crooked gentleman quires. A medical expert states
Hainan and Mr. Day, however, was ad- and Governor Bowring deter- who informed him that he had just that the food has been approved elsewhere for local consumption vised to try his chances further mined to avail himself of his
come straight from Bath, the author and the trade is growing rather afield, and Hongkong was sug- further services, whenever
of "Gulliver's Tra
Travels" retorted: for humans and contains valu- than declining despite the able vitamins. The same expert growth of three or four pig-for his labours. His conversa- arise. This soon occurred, as to bring to the notice of present-day a "You seem to have got terribly warp- gested as the most likely sphere suitable opportunity should ed on the journey!"
Here considers that If the idea was geries in the New Territories tions with merchants and ship result of a quarrel between the dictators who desire to suppress free- 13 n story which I should like ndopted and supported by Gov- during the last two years, captains convinced him of the Governor ernment, room could be made in Large scale piggeries would advantages of settling here, and Chisolm Anstey, the Attorney-versation between George It.
and Mr. Thomas dom of speech. It concerns a con the 300 square miles of granite depend on imported food, such he therefore decided
as bran, which could not be pro- the Colony
to make General. There had been con- William Whiston, the translator of hills and fertile valley in the duced here even if the capital Shortly after his arrival in the these two individuals for some unconventional theological opinions.
his future home. siderable animosity between
Josephus, with reference to Whiston's New Territories for raising large and ground were available. It autumn of 1855, he was admitted time; hence it was not entirely The King, who was fond of Wilson. persecution for having aired his very crops and, as the diet became is preferable to depend on the to practice at the local Bar, and unexpected when Sir John an popularised,
advised him that however correct his more cheap imported pig rather than
views might be, he should endeavour ground could be devoted to on imported food for the local within a year or so had built up nounced on August 9, 1868 the
suppress them in public. pig, and the Chinese have other
satisfactory clientele suspension of alfalfa at the expense
the Attorney- "Had Martin Luther done 50," of the
reasons for preferring the
though he General from office, and the ap- answered cheaper grades of rice.
the philosopher, “your It former. The imported pig is a was now only 38 years of age, he pointment of Mr. Day in his Majesty would not be occupying the would be a pity Indeed to sug-r.fco seventy to eighty pound
was nevertheless considered as stend.
Throne." gest that alfalfa or the equally animal which matures in eight important food diet of spinach months, lives hardily and cheap- should eventually exclude rice asly and cuts up into neat little ten common sense and remarkable this high office would assuredly
As might be expected, my ancient the chief cereal of the New Ter-cent joints or sells entire for industry were soon to secure for have been a stepping stone to a anthology contains several anecdotes
ceremonial occasions for which him due recognition.
further series of promotions; based on verbal saliles made by such ritories since at least one area pork is demanded. The improv-
On January 2, 1856, the Gov. but the honour and recognition Sheridan and the
exquialte masters of humour 正容 Brothers Smith in the Fanling district is famed fod cross which it was attempted ernment notified that "in const which were the reward of his authors of "Helected Addresses.") throughout China for the high to breed here takes two months quence of the continued indis. endeavours were short-lived, in-
Sheridan overheard an intended quality of this product. The longer to mature and is not so position of the Honourable Chief deed; for he fell victim to an compliment, paid to a charming ac- tres by gallant who assured her Cha Hang district at Fanling final proof of how impossible it his hand and the seal of the the carly age of forty. His sud-promising that year, so Sheridan As a Justice, the Governor had, under acute attack of dysentery and that she looked as blooming as the convenient to market. grew rice for the Imperial Court is for the New Territories to Colony and in accordance with den death was a great shock to would to God, madam, that the died on September 21, 1868 at spring. The spring was not very of China for, centuries before grow pigs for the Colony's needs section 5 of Ordinance No. 6 of the community, and if the Republic. Nowadays the it might ho mentioned that the 1845, appointed Mr. John Day, farmers have no Court to supply; present local piggèries could barrister-at-law, to sit in the obituary notices in the local Here is a story about Horace and sell their rice for export produce enough pork for a few place of the Chief Justice, and press are a fair criterion of the Smith, which seems equally appro in the high-class trade and are days' normal consumption only hear and determine such suits sentiments of the residents, priate to modern times. He was in- troduced, at social gathering, to an well content to buy with half that they are too insignificant in as may be brought before him there must have been manifest affected lady of title, who said, with
numbers to be noticed by the under the Summary Jurisdiction found regret. In fact,
a very general feeling of pro- cool indifference:Smith-1 seem their proceeds sufficient low importers at present; and if of the Supreme Court, on Friday, obituary ends in a most melan- must have seen you somewhere
one to know your name, sir. I think I grade imported rice for their serious competition were at the 4th January, and following needs. Though the New Terri-tempted, the importers could cut days until all such cases shall choly manners"......But it is "for I have often been there, I as Likely," responded Horace, "Very torica imports luxury trade rice, their prices nearly fifty per cont have been adjudicated and deter has entered into the "Happy
useless to speak good of one who sure you." the supply throughout the and still make a profit while local mined."
It was James Smith who called Colony is quite inadequate to keting at the present price. piggerics have difficulty in mar-
Valloy. Rather, seeing how on a friend at his country house and, perceiving him running through the soon, in these latitudes, the grounds to meet him, wald he was feed the population-constantly While conditions such as these
Government Well
night comes in which no man sorry to see him so improvident. increasing-without an enorm-exist and the population remains
Pleased
can work, it would be well if wo "How do you mean?" naked the ous quantity of imported rice. at a million or more, Hongkong
all considered how mean, how olher. Most countries are alow to will always be reliant on import-
Although Mr. Day had pre- miserable, our petty strivings through your estate,"
I regret to see you running to fost was the on- change their habits without the ed foodstuffs and experiments viously hold himself aloof from for wealth, influence, and post-swer. stimulus of a Dictator, and the on a large scale, will have a his time and interests solely to simply, to live worthy lives the actor-manager, who was Che-
such as the growing of alfalfa all colonial matters, and devoted tion are, and sought, Chinose in Hongkong could not scientifle rather than a commer the promotion of his own pro the sole necessity of fearless he expected to take to any new clal value. G. G.
fession, He now proved himself deaths!""
PATRIC
KHULBERT ELLIS
PARADISE fo TWO
with ARTHUR RISCOE and
GOOGLE WITHERS
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a most
Furthermore, oven
the Colony, and his fund of the doyen or senior barrister in
to
The nomination of Mr. Day to Sheridan's Wit
bowed to the Indy and onld: "I spring
were as blooming as you."
the W
moro
Next a story about James Quin.
having applied to him for an engag tick's rival An Incompetent player
(Continued on Pape 11).