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Hongkong, 1st July, 1857.
FEW men in the early his- Like other merchants in the tory of Hongkong have Colony, Mr. Murrow was severe- been more distinguished by ly hit by the war of 1855-57 be- a self-sacrificing spirit thun tween Englund anut China, that rugged Welshman, Mr. especially so, as his fleet of! Yorick Jones Murrow,
steamers had been tied up by the hostilities, although some whose sojourn in the Colony had been commandeered by the constituted 3 Murrovian Government and for a time ex- tensively employed as despatch
era, and an epoch in itself.
He was a pioneer in many local projects and his public
boats.
him an opportunity to delve into
However, the war afforded
TRY THE 10 AND 12 H.P. spirit manifested itself in a vocation for which he was to
The
Hongkong Eelegraph.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1938.
Death Wins
BAT-
many enterprises; for he was
prove himself peculiarly fitted, nut
veteran only a chant and far-seeing commercial viz: journalism. Early in 1867, entrepreneur but also a daunt- less journalist, whose paper, the Daily Press became the moulder of public opinion in
the Orient,
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news-
Mr. Murrow becaine the proprietor and editor of the Daily Press, a shipping periodi- cal which had been established by Mr. George M. Ryder, a Hongkong pharmacist, some few months before.
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Ever. 1954 by l'mited # Sara Krtekbente, Ian
jichting
"Arbuckle always likes to wait and see what the other fellow's going to bring out.”
Is Life
Cheap On Our Roads?
MR. Yorick Jones Murrow was born in Wales in the year 1817, and came out to China as THE Daily Press under its new youth of twenty in order proprietor was immediately to seek his fortune. His career transformed from a moribund commenced modestly enough colonial news sheet into a living EL junior clerk in the force. Mr. Murrow's peculiar Canton firm of Messrs. Jamie- genius now found full scope for son, How and Co., one of the development, and he took 21
or hongs, prominent part in the history of TS foreign "factories," which were at that day the the Colony. The directness of headquarters of all European his style were manifest from trade in the Celestial Empire.
THE APPEAL by the Mayors of 119 cities to the govern- ments of the world to protest against the bombardment of open towns, especially in China, indicates once more the horror felt throughout the world at the repeated massacres of civilians Young Murrow, however, by bombing planes. It is still proved that he was adapted by temperament to be a shrewd going on, every day, in China China trader and, within a few and in Spain, but is reported years, determined to go into only occasionally now because business on his own account. Sv successful, was he in this capa- the public sense of horror has city that for a period of nearly become Ho blunted that it no thirty years he exercised very longer wants to read about any great influence in the southern
ports of China, but major holocausts. Con- stant repetition of this mass
murder from the skies is apt to
lessen the chances of concerted protest.
UPON the cession of Hong-
kong as a British Colony, Mr. Murrow transferred his activities to the new port, and
PERSONALITIES
of old Hongkong
by T. PAUL GREGORY
vocabulary
enabled
kong?
has
DRIVING to
been
the
have been inflicted when n
the I BELIEVE that there have
occasions when danger of the public a charge of manslaughter has been serious offence in Hong-preferred against local drivers, which makes one wonder all the whether there is any Unless my recollection of more
about charges or road regulations in the uniformity British Isles is sadly astray, penalities for certain specified it is no light matter to dis-offences. At times heavy fines obey the laws of the road motorist has come to grief in and if disobedience results the early hours of the morning, • in the death of a person, the far heavier than in some cases driver invariably faces a where wilful disregard of Regu- lations has resulted in death. charge of manslaughter.
The tragic toll of the ronds Surely it is not to be presumed has become a momentous ques-that our local law is a respecter tion, and far-reaching legislation of persons, insofar as traffic
been adopted in order to offences are concerned.
At times I have sympathised It is a somewhat horrifying his "keen intelligence induced the very beginning. His inex-bring home to some motorists
the grave consequences which with local doctors who have been thought that the public and the him to establish, at his own risk. haustible
a daily postal service-in the him to express just what he will follow should they fail to charged and heavily fined for ex- governments of the world have first instance of fast native row. wished to say and in the fewest co-operate with the authorities. ceeding the speed limit in a con- This is as it should be, for the trolled area; or for driving become so used to incessant airboats of his own design, as possible words. Thus in making
question is one of profound dangerously. The logical de- raids upon defenceless civilians specially adapted to the service, his bow to the public he said:
and afterwards by steamer, "The community of Hongkong seriousness. It is surely high fence that minutes lost on the that the only possibility of even which he also designed." would (doubtless) be startled time that Hongkong came into a protest is when "neutrals" are] Mr. Murrow was, moreover, yesterday at the altered form line with other countries in this included among the victims. the pioneer in the Chinese pas. and increased dimensions of the connection, especially when it is senger traffic between the Daily Press. In the course of commonly believed that many of Whether or not "neutral" lives
Colony and San Francisco, nine months the bantling had our Laws and Ordinances are) are lost, it is surely to the in-which singularly enough led to outgrown its clothes. Its stupid based upon those in force at
new suit,Home. terest of all civilised nations to a wholesale emigration of Chi- parents procured a bring the atrocity of indis-nese to Amerien, a factor which which to their bewilderment has as his admirers stated "did more proved much too small for its. criminate aerial bombardment than all other forces combined gigantic limbs. Modesty ap to an end. It is scarcely less to to free the Chinese people from pears to be their habitual fail- the interest of the combatants the hereditary shackles of exclu- ing, but it is competent for them siveness, in which many cen- to plead inexperience as an ex- making the raids, who merely turies of 'custom' had previously cuse, as this is the first child
enthralled them."
they have had to apparel. We trust that our manners will im- prove with our age. We hope TN connection with his promo- that when we shall no longer be tion of Chinese emigration regarded as, interlopers, our con- to California, he carried on vari- temporaries will hesitate to con-
enter temn our advice ous other commercin!
valueless, prises, one of them being an- and condescend to pursue that
cement the solidarity of their opponents.
Return To Sender THERE IS NO romance about a postal administration.
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NOTICE
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for having slated that Sir John Bowring extended undue preference to Messrs. Jardine,
by JOHN BLUNT
Matheson & Co., and the journey, might have meant the China Mail) to the counting tremendious difference between room he previously occupied life and death to a sick person, at the Old Central Police has sounded thoroughly justified. Station,
On thinking over the matter, Y. J. Murrow however, I have come to the con- Victoria Jail, 16th Oct. 1858. clusion that in the absence of any particular form of identi- |fication or signal (which I think
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portant services which Mr. to uso) a doctor is just an ordi- Murrow rendered to the Colony nary motorist, and must there- were the daring expose in the fore obey the laws of the road. columns of the Daily Press of It would be poor consolation to
That is why large quantities nounced to the longkong public course which has contributed to PERHAPS the two most imali doctors should be permitted
in the following advertisement, our signal success," of Christmas cards and calen-which appeared in the local dars addressed to Hongkong re-press during the summer and sidents are going back to the autumn of the year 1857. senders. With the threat of court proceedings looming in the background, the latter will be asked to pay double tax for their ignorance of the fact that, under the all-up air mail scheme introduced this year, the rate for sealed packets is a penny halfpenny per half ounce and not, as before per ounce.
IT was inevitable that the in- the greatest blights of the time me if my child were killed just dependence of Mr. Murrow's the Macno coolic slave trade because a doctor was speeding The undersigned has this opinions should speedily carn and the piracy which flourished to save the life of another's day commenced business as at him 24 Insting reputation under alleged official connivance child. Ship, Produce and Insurance as the "stormy petrel" of in the Colony itself. Broker, and Adjuster of Aver- local politics.
Like Mr.
from His retirement
the William Tarrant, the editor of Colony in the 'sixties was
Second door West from Gra- soon accused of libel, and his many public addresses and other ham Street,
unes.
Omee, Queen's Road the Friend of China, he was marked by the presentation of OF COURSE, there is a very
Y. J. Murrow
that
great difference between the trial for this offence was one of evidences of the high esteem in unavoidable and the avoidable the causes celebres of that day. which he was held. The Parace accident. Hongkong is a parti- trying place for His conviction resulted in his Community, among others, pre-cularly being sentenced to prison for six sented him with a magnificent motorists, for the reason Jected. It is only a beginning. months for publishing an article set of silver plate suitably the Chinese masses show a total Jack of road consciousness. If we were one of the Powers- Battleships will be part of a regarding the then Governor, inscribed as a mark of their ap that-Bc, we would feel inclined new squadron to be based in the Sir John Bowring, and being preciation of his long and Many of them meet their death
eminent public service.
ías a consequence. ordered to pay a fine of £100. aro to say: "Well, we made a good Pacific. Great surprises
He, however, continued to The news of his passing at his No blame whatsoever can be fat profit out of stamps last promised when the naval estim-edit his paper while in prison. residence, Alphington House, attributed to the driver when he ates for 1940 are introduced in The notice of his relcase was Five Onks, Jersey, on March 12, is obeying traffic regulations, if year. Let's forget the surtax
the Cominona next
Friday. a striking instanco of his spirit. 1884 was received with much a pedestrian suddenly rushes in and give the poor devils their Australia, too, will contributo It reads as follows:
regret in the Colony where he front of his radiator. Christmas greetings."
had devoted so many years of There is however, a "noticeable £30,000,000 as her share of Em-
NOTICE OF REMOVAL his life to useful service to the disregard for traffic regulations pire re-armament. Tail-Twisters, Beware!
The undersigned has moved public. Hongkong, in short, had in general, especially with re- his office from Victorin Jail, lost a man who had made one gard to lorries and buses. Tho (where he has been incarce of the most interesting chapters restriction of 15 M.P.H. painted. rated for the past six months'in its colourful history.
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