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CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR JAMES RUSSELL
A well-known
By T. Paul Gregory
name in the
Colony during the latter part of the last century was that
Successful Career
Upon his return to the Colony
of Chief Justice, Sir James in June 1874, he was gazetted Russell, Kt., C.M.G. His career Coroner, an office which he fill- of more than twenty-five years From this position it was in-
ed with
entire satisfaction. in the service of the Hongkong evitable that further promotion
Government was a most meri-
torious one, and earned for him should be his lot, and he served during the next nine years in the esteem of the entire com- munity; for he was happily one Acting Puisne Judge to Colonial |
various capacities, ranging from of those personalities who, com- Treasurer and Registrar Gen- bined in addition to great ability
eral. and a remarkable capacity for conscientious endeavour, a kind and generous disposition.
GRIN AND BEAR IT .
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Dent. 1930 bp United Zubare İsmilerin, Ann -
"Darling! Glorious news! The War Department just accepted my new bomb!"
Women Don't
UNDERSTAND
The death of Mr. Francis Snowden, the Puisne Judge on
Sir James Russell was born in
April 1, 1883, provided him with an unexpected opportunity; for Ireland about the year 1840. He he was immediately appointed was the scion of a well-to-do family, who provided him with Ferguson Bowen
by the Governor, Sir George to fill the an excellent education, and he graduated at Queen's University he discharge the duties of the vacancy. So conspicuously did in 1863 with a B.A. Degree. Bench that he won wide acclaim, The subsequent three or four and it was not to be wondered at spent in private that his ability soon came to the study and in acting as tutor and attention of the Home Govern-
MAN has just ob- companion to the sons of other
served to me that at wealthy families. The apparent recipient-of a Companionage in ment. He was accordingly thre
"the recent meeting of ly futureless vocation of
the Order of St. Michael and St. the British Association, teacher at length began to pall George on June 18, 1887. The where the scientific work Writing on the eve of a on the young man, and he de- bestowal of this honour seemed and achievements of the cided to enter the foreign ser- to be a signal for further pro-
Thursday, SEPTEMBER 29, 1930.
war
BRITONS ARE READY
years were
to
Sir
A
spot is science.
OI
Science
Says
And Miss Phoebe answers sudly: "It Is X minus Y equals Z plus Y. And all the time you are saying they are equal, you feel in your heart. Why should they be?"
Mathematics is a specialist's game,
pects of science?
tain is fighting to-day, to avert interest in the law, so that upon ing the eighties as to whether Hers was the life of the scientist
was a prodigy, learned to drive?
catastrophic wor and its atten- dant horrors.
momentous meeting of the House of Commons, we would vice. In 1867 he was appointed motion, or on Nerther 10 year were discussed, women| HELEN SIMPSON like to refer our readers to ex- Upon his arrival in the Colony, of the Chief Justice, Sir George
a cadetship in Hongkong. 1888, owing to the retirement had little to contribute. tracts from a speech made in he occupied himself with his Philippo, he
There may be more of them than: that same Chamber twenty-four habitual ardour to the studies of gazetted as his successor.
was accordingly usual with a lot to talk about, but it
Says Miss Susan: "What is al- will just be a paper here and there gebra, exactly? Is it those three- the Government cadet, but so years ago, on August 3, 1914 rapid was his progress that he ing legal minds, Chief Justice original stuff, very little.
checking somebody else's facts; some cornered things?" As one of the Colony's lead-records of patient observation, 36 hours before Britain
was came to the attention of the plunged into the most disastrous then Governor,
Russell was noted for the fair-
It was odd, he thought. I dis- Richard civilisation has known. Graves MacDonnell, who, the
of his decisions. If he agreed with him. I though it per ness
normni. Women's brains The speaker on that occasion very next year, nominated him of leniency. Like others of his have one blind spot, and that blind anyhow. What about the other 5-
crred, it was perhaps on the sidefectly was Sir Edward Grey, the Brl-as his Private Secretary. tish
time, he was not adverse to en- Foreign Minister who His next post-that of Police tering the great controversy body's mouth, a name: Mme. Curic. car, both of which
A single answer leaps to every- fought, as Mr. Neville Chamber-Magistrate-instilled in him an which raged in Hongkong dur-well, Mme. Curie
How about the aeropiane and the women have
his leave of absence at Home in the public whipping post should born.
How about the Air Raid Precau- 1872, he determined to utilise be
llons, with the lectures on chemical abolished. His recorded
and the power of The quiet Polish woman calculat- Warfare the opportunity for further opinion was apparently a non-ing at her chemist husband's side, plosives? This is what Sir Edward study. The law now became his committal one; for while he was children--and going back to work. these?
obscure and content, having her What is the reaction of women-to Grey said:
forte, and he took his LL.B. at too kind an individual at heart Stricken with illness, loss and go- "The most awful responsibility
the University of Dublin. So to openly endorse the weekly is resting upon the Government conspicuous was his scholastic quota of floggings in full view of High Honours in deciding what to advise the standard that he won
a gold the thrill-seeking public, he was
war, INTERRUPTED by House of Commons to do. W medal, and was called to the Bar honest enough to state that "he black dress, turned and re-turned a
working always. In have disclosed our mind to the Term of 1874, the authorities was to be curbed if the cat and glory, denied entrance to the French she could help it. "I hate to think at Lincoln's Inn in the Easter did not know how local crime dozen times, receiving high honours; House of Commons. Wo have allowing him
claimed by France as her greatest She said she never looked at it if a concession of the birch were to be abolished." disclosed the issue, the informa- three terms, as ordinarily he in this respect, he echoed the was a foreigner: frantically praised, and ends jigging about."
Institute on the grounds that she I'm at the mercy of all those odds tion which we have, and made would not have been admitted to convictions of the majority of any of it--and going back to work.
savagely assalled, caring nothing for clear to the House. I trust, that practice until later in the year.
The man who taught her to fly the community, who, while they
told me she was fine in the air, we are prepared to face that
Yes, Mme. Curie is out of the top because she was an excellent rider, were perhaps as humanitarian | drawer. Harriet Chick's work on and had good hands with a horse; situation, and that should It
the determination, the resolu- as any other, did not feel too suren Welsh gir! solved a mathematical what made the propellers go round, rickets is world-famed. Recently but she knew no more than Adam develop, as probably it will de-
of the wisdom of Governor Pope problem which had baffled aircraft velop, we will face it. We work-
Hennessy's "advanced" liber.designers for years. Then, of course, There are plenty of women flyers ed for peace up to the last
there's Mrs. Maxine Miles, who very feel of the plane, able to endure. like this: plucky, sensitive to the alism. mement, and beyond the Inst
successfully designs acropianes.
moment. How hard, how persis courage and endurance for Hongkong was really his lasted on the strength of these excep- but not the imagination, tently, and how earnestly we which Sir Edward Groy appeal official appointment, and al-tions, hs you cannot, on the strength strove for pence last week the ed just over twenty-four years though he was honoured with a eribe them us notable strategists in tion to get the best out of a machine.. of Boardleca and Joan of Arc, des- It takes a special sort of imagina- House will see from the papers ago persisted until, four years knighthood while on furlough in wor.
that will be before it.
tion, the courage, and the en- durance of the whole country."|
The determination, resolution,
The. Chief Justiceship
of
ing back to work.
·
I have a friend who is a remark- ably good air pilot Sho casually les about Europe and Africa, feels at home, and is perfectly happy in but the alr. I asked her how on earth her she deal with the engine when it
went wrong.
But we women are not employed as But you cannot make out a case test pilots, nor do we invent new for women being scientifically mind-acrobatic stunts. We have the heart,
and this is inbelled Men Only.
of anything remotely mechanical.
Consider the woman who is afraid
I have watched a woman turn on
later, the forces of Might crim- 1890, he began to feel that qualities which go to make an Ein- We lock, and always will back, the "But that is over, as for usinally unleashed upon the world health the peace of Europe is concerned, were crushed.
considerations wouldstein, n Fasteur, or a Stephenson,
We are now face to face with a
eventually compel his retire- And a woman chess champion a gas fire, retreat a yard or two, and British people to-day are not ment. The arduous duties of Kave it as her opinion that we could throw lighted matches at it like situation and all the consequences
never-"well, hardly ever be ex-darts, "I hate being near the pop which it may yet have to unfold. concerned with the merits of the his office began to tell on his connected to beat the chess masters of was her explanation, We believe that we shall have dispute between Czecho-Slova-stitution, and in 1893, he deter- the world.
Will Never Learn kia and Germany. In 1914,
mined to resign and return "What Is Algebra?" the support of the House at large in proceeding to whatever they were not concerned with his failing strength. While it the consequences may be and the merits of the dispute be- was hoped that Sir James would Street" put this female viewpoint women. Ninety-nine per cent, of all
and Servis, recover sufficiently to permit quite clearly,
whatever
measures may
between Austria
Home in an effort to recuperate
were
MATHEMATICS wo eminot
DOCTOR lamented: to me: "Those people the Bible see the sense of. The ladies speaks of who knew not their right In Sir James Borrie's Quality band from their left must have been screws, from the key of the oxygen cylinder to the cap of a bottle, turn clockwise to tighten and anti-clock- wise to loosen. But can I get any
forced upon us by the develop-|which' culminated in the Great his return to the Colony, the ment of facts or action taken War. But they are vitally con-majority of the community felt by others.
cerned when the pence of the that his departure would be from Lord Ripon to the Gover-nurse to grasp that? They sult por
nor, Sir William Robinson on reed, each time, by trial and error," "I have put the vital facts world is threatened by bruto permanent. Their fears 'fore the House and if, as seems force. - And, as in 1914-1918. fulfilled: for on September 3, September 8:
Finally, take the authentic story of an Air Raid Precautions lecture in a not improbable, we are forced, British people can be relied upon had passed away at Strathpeffer, opinion, Sir James Russell's ser-how to minimise the effects of gart 1893, came the tidings that he It stated in part: "In my village, hali, Gas was the theme: and rapidly forced, to take our to support their King and Coun- Scotland, where he had gone but vice to the Government was of a how to know when gas was about.
how to render Orst.ald to the gassed; stand upon these issues, then I try to the last man and the last a few days previously in a vain very high order, and in him suc- bellove, when the country rea-penny. News of the last minute effort to profit by a change of cessive Governors and Secreman rose and said, diniif applause:
At the end of half an hour a wo Ilses what is at stake, what the proposals for a Four Power Con- scenery. The residents of the taries of State found a wise, just, "All very well, but this won't come real issues are, the magnitude of ference at Munich is wonderful Colony were profoundly shocked and single-minded adviser, who, herec
our way: we cook with oil round the Impending dangers in the news. We all pray that Mr. at the news of his death, and not on the judicial bench only. No, we women haven't got the West of Europe, we shall be sup-Chamberlain's last: minute hastened to pay tributes to his but in other ways, did good and frechanical or selenuifle mind. We ported throughout, not only by efforts for peace will not go memory. The most eulogistid lasting work for the Calony In danity understand machinery, Por the House of Commons, but by Junrewarded.
of them all came in a telegram which his public life was spent." And it seems to be na
use pretending we dowy bud