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Sir Richard Graves Mac- Donnell was born in Ireland
One Of Hongkong's
Most Energetic
Governors
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exempt from punishment of this kind, and one convicted of rob bery by violence was sentenced - in addition to a term of three. years' imprisonment, to receive. fifty lashes to be thrice adminis- tered to him in public. Some residents of the Colony felt that it was a serious blow to British prestige to have one of their own race thus. flogged, and ac-· cordingly petitioned Governor- MacDonnell to remit the Gambian Bench, he was fur- FROM the very beginning of ging part of the sentence, but the flog- his administration, Governor history does not record whether ther signalled out from other candidates in the foreign
aer- MacDonnell adopted the wise their wishes were hearkened to vice, to not as Governor.
policy of thoroughly considering or not. *
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
the various problema put before him, and when he had mastered
about the year 1810, and was THE four years in the guber- their details, saw to it that the educated at Trinity College in
reforms were im- THE drastic "flogging Ordi
nance" and the establishment
bo
natorial chair of the West proposed Dublin.. His scholastic career African Colony were marked by mediately executed. The ques- FIT PRACTICALLY ALL CARS— |SPHINX QUALITY—
was in itself characteristic of sincere efforts on his part to im- tion which greatly agitated the of a so-called "High Court for SPHINX PATENTED FEATURES the boundless energy
of the prove conditions and to promote Colony at the time was that of the Suppression of Piracy" soon of curbing, the put a stop to serious crime; for COMPLETE SATISFACTION,
trade. His indefatigable atten- finding means man; for he never did anything tion to his post was illustrated "crime wave," which then had a large percentage of the male-
were alleged to by halves, but thoroughly mas- by the fact that during his so- assumed almost unprecedented fuctors tered each subject in turn. As journ he was actively engaged proportions. Robbers and thieves pirates, who attempted to carry might be expected of such a in exploring the resources of the were extremely numerous, and on their operations on land, and methodical individual, he was country, and actually under. counted amongst their numbers employed their craft as means
individuals of unusual' daring of making a "get-a-way" to. awarded A scholarship and took a number of expeditions to
and resource. The local police some safe lair along the coat. Stubbs Rd. his college days were
the interlor, going from Bat-
Naturally, Governor MacDonnell. hurst (the capital) to Senegam- seem d totally unable to series of successes; for he was bia, & distance of nearly a thou with the menace effectively and constantly winning honours by sand miles. He was instru- some of the "jobs" pulled off by mental in mapping the course of these gangsters of the 'sixties the Gambla river, and his work are reminiscent of the style of Jesse James and other "bad was definitely a contribution to
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1938.
BY
T. PAUL
WATER
The voluminous and con-
A
dent
the geographical knowledge of men" of America's Wild West. For instance, in January 1865, that extensive maritime region.
thieves tunnelled into the pre-
PERSONALITIES
OF OLD HONGKONG
His African exploration won mises of the Bank of India, and was eulogised by the community him a C.B. (Civil Division) in made a clean "get-a-way" with for his efforts at crime suppres→
GREGORY 1862, and want a factor it, loot estimated at about $100,000 sion, and although the Scere-
on
was a
The active policy pursued by
securing his next appointment, in gold and bank-notes. It was tary of State for the Colonics, that of Governor of St. Lucia. such escapades as these which the Duke of Buckingham and troversial Water Bill will come
His term of office in this West made the Colony unsafe for the Chandos complained in June before Legislative Council on reason of his attainments in the Indian Island was short; for he law-abiding citizen, and the 1868 about the apparent ruth- Thursday next week for its classica and the sciences. He was transferred to St. Vincent Governor determined to end lessness of his remedies, he car- third and final reading. It is was graduated with 21 B.A. the same year. Here. he con- once and for all the illusion ried on unflinchingly in face of probably too late to suggest that degree in 1836, and went no for tinued until the year 1855, when which was present in the minds criticism. The public supported the Council should insert a a further period of study, ob- he was nominated to act in like of so many of the riff-raff from his efforts in every way, and clause which will
entirely taining his M.A. three years capacity in South Australia. the interior, that Hongkong was heartily concurred in his state- His stay in the Antipodes was a sort of land of Cocaigne for ment that he was "of the opinion divorce the control of water later. At this time, too, he was terminated in March 1862, with those who wanted to make an that in a place like Hongkong from the Public Works Depart-called to the Irish Bar, and sub- his appointment to govern the easy living by crime.
with its ever-recruited criminal ment and remove its finances sequently in 1840, he was ad- Colony of Nova Scotia. The
classes and changing population, It must be remembered at this publicity of execution from the Budget,
mitted to practice by Lincoln's success which he enjoyed as a
time that owing to the unsettled most desirable thing, and the Inn. For a time he was a bar- colonial administrator was The experience of the Hong-rister in London, when he de- largely responsible for his sub- conditions the mainland
one element likely to act as a kong consumer with direct
cided to turn his talents to better sequent post, that of Governor brought about by the collapse of terror to evil-doers," Government control of public account by serving the Crown. and Commander-in-Chief of the the Tal-ping rebellion, thou- utilities has not been fortunate, His first appointment in 1843 Colony of Hongkong, in succes- sands of ex-rebels and pirates and in this respect Government was that of Chief Justice of the sion to Sir Hercules Robinson. flocked here in search of "easy Governor MacDonnell soon re- of pickings" and their presence ac- duced crime to a minimum, and does not differ from private West African Colony of Gambia, Although his commission control of utilities in this which office he held until 1847. Governor was dated October 14, counted for what was one of the although his methods have been
In the meantime, he was the 1865, he did not arrive here to most formidable waves of law- criticised by later administra Colony. The managements of
been tors, notably Governor Sir John recipient in 1844 of an Honorary assume the duties of his office lessness which had ever public utilities under private LL.D. from his alma mater, until March 11. of the following experienced in
Crown Pope Hennessy, they were cer- Rasploroft control have at least the excuse emphasising
tainly effective in remedying an Colony. Hig in year.
arrival was un-
appalling condition. that they must consider their which his manifold talents were heralded owing to the lack of Drastic remedies had
Shortly to bo after his efforts in coping with shareholders and, except in such | held. Consequently, it was communication at the time, so proposed and adopted. The the crime wave were crowned case as dividends are limited by practically inevitable that upon that when his ship came into the most effective was the much- with success, ho turned his at- term on harbour, the Acting Chief Jus condemned" Flogging Ordinance" tention to the evil of licenced Ordinance, exact almost the last the expiration of his
tice, Mr. Henry James Ball was which put terror into the hearts gambling, and instituted ounce of flesh.. Government,
not informed, of the fact, and so of all malefactors. Whippings thorough enquiry into the acti- which has not the same excuse, than is necessary to cover main-was not present in time to ad- were carried out in the full view vities of the Police Force. Like.
in periods of minister the customary oath in of the public, and were, in the Sir William Robinson the two utilities controlled by financial depression when, as it the Council Chambers. When the more humanitarian opinion of twenty years later, Governor Government, Post Office and did three years ago, Government news of the Governor's arrival the present day, truly horrifying MacDonnell would stand for no Kowloon Canton Railway, have feverishly casts around for new was conveyed to him, he rushed affairs. Prisoners were usually compromise in what he thought become, under astute manage- sources of revenue, water is to attend to the judicial part of given anything from twenty was an evil condition and de- ment with an eye to profits, the | going to be the obvious choice, the inauguration ceremony only five to fifty lashes on the bared clared that if there appeared to
of The temptation to add an addi- to learn that the oath of office back with the regulation "cat-o'-
had already been administered i nine-tails." Europeans were not must be summarily abolished.
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There is every reason why the revenue from water should not be included in the Budget. Many Government undertakings in the past have been notoriously The danger of bureaucratic expensive and mis-managed, and, Government control of water in colossal undertakings such as under the new system to be the Water Authority must em- introduced with the passage bark upon in the not distant through Legislative Council of futuro, Hongkong needs its the Water Bill becomes apparent, business talpans at the helm. During periods of financial An independent Water Board buoyancy, such as the Colony is of elected and appointed mem- experiencing at present, Govern- | bers, and not Government, ment will have no need to tam should control the supply and per with the cost of water, which cost of this greatest of all presumably, will be no more necessities.
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Therefore, he ordered the clos-
By George Clarking-down of the licenced gam-
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bling houses in the Colony, on the ground that their presence tended to exert a demoralising influence on the community at large. Their suppression, how- ever, was not as salutary as the Governor hoped; for they im- mediately appeared as private "clubs" and for years it was alleged that Possession Point
and Taipingahan pullulated with a formidable mushroom. growth of illicit gambling es- tablishments that were as much of an evil as the erstwhile licenced houses.
The suppression of the public gambling quarters, was among the last official acts of Governor MacDonnell, and on April 11, 1872, he left Hongkong. The arduousness of his labours to ameliorate local conditions a great strain on
Was
his strength. A gratefal Colony, however, perpetuates his name and work in Mach Donnoll Road, and his death in England in the 'dighties wal Let|greatly=regretted.: