THE DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 26TH, 1881.
TO THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM KESWICK.
Sir—The subscribers to the accompanying testimonial have confided to us the duty of its presentation, and in their names and our own of saying to you a few words of farewell. The numerous signatures appearing in the appended subscription lists, representing every class and race of this community, will afford you the best testimony of the wide-spread appreciation entertained of your public career, but it will not be out of place for us to pass in brief retrospect some of the more eminent services you have rendered the Colony.
Chief among these stands the able and straightforward performance of your duties in the Legislative Council, where you have for so many years held a seat. In a Crown Colony the position of an Unofficial Member of this Council is full of discouragement; having no power of initiation, and with the certainty before him of being outvoted if in opposition, his task is limited to criticism of the schemes of the Government. Your labours in this direction have been of the highest importance and utility, and more especially as a guardian of the public purse the attitude you have unflinchingly maintained cannot, we think, be very well over-estimated.
The little leisure which the pressing responsibilities of a large Mercantile House have left you, you have ungrudgingly bestowed on many other public affairs. As Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce your wide experience and knowledge of business have been of the highest value. The City Hall owes much to your care and attention. Schemes of charity and for the assistance of the poor or friendless have ever found in you a real sympathiser; and there are but few institutions organised in this Colony for humane or charitable purposes that have not profited by your liberal aid and advice.
Not less worthy of mention have been your services to many of those Public Companies with which much the prosperity of the Colony has now become identified. To your power of labour, business capacity, and grasp of detail, these important concerns are in no small degree indebted for the prosperity they enjoy; and it is no slight to others to say that probably to you more prominently than any one else, is due the confidence which joint-stock enterprise now enjoys in the Far East.
We now beg to bid you farewell, and with every wish for your enjoyment of your well-earned holiday, we remain, your sincere friends,
E. F. ALFORD
R. G. ALFORD
ADOLF ANDRE
J. R. ANTON
F. H. AJANEE
THOS. ARNOLD
P. B. C. AYEES
M. E. AZGER
F. H. D'AZEVEDO
GEO. MURRAY BAIN
W. N. BAIN
J. A. BARRETTO
E. R. BELILIOS
A. H. BENNING
THEO. T. BENING
H. M. BEVIS
ARTHUR R. BLANDY
F. DE BOVIE
K. E. BRADDON
A. DE BRITTO
J. F. BROADBENT
E. BURNIE
F. D. BURJ
B. BYRAMJEE
A. H. DE CARVALHO
CHA FOO SAN
G. DE CHAMPEAUX
CHAN CHEONG WING
CHAN LAY KUM
CHAN SING
CHAN YAU FANG
CHAN YET LOW
C. P. CHATER
J. T. CHATER
CHAUK CHICK PU
CHEEK NGOK LOW
CHEUNG LUK U
CHING SING YEUNG
CHIU NOON
CHOY CHER BEE
CHOY CHOONG CHUN
CHOY SINO NAM
CHUN CHEONG TAI
CHUN SANG
Dr. CLOUTH
A. S. COHEN
CHAN. C. COKER
LO LAI PING
LOOKE MOW
J. LOUREIRO
LOW BEAR FIN
LOW YVET CHWE
LUNG CHEONG CHAN
LUNG LENG
I. LYALL
A. MACCLYMONT
JOHN MACGREGOR
E. MACKEN
E. MACKINTOSH
H. C. MACLEAN
G. F. JOU MAROMED
HAJEE MAHOMED & Co.
MAN YIK
ALFRED T. MANWARING
JNO. FR. MARDFELDT
D. M'CULLOCH
A. MCCONACHIE
A. P. MCEWEN
A. MOIVER
ROBERT MCMURDO
MEN LUN
D. M. MEHTA
K. M. MEHTA
K. B. MEHTA
E. MELETT
E. M. MEHTA
N. M. MEHTA
A. E. MEYER
H. MIRZA
H. N. MODY
S. D. MOOKSWEE
W. M. MORGAN
A. G. MORRIS
JOHN A. MOSELY
D. MUNCHERJEE
S. A. NATHAN
H. H. BLON
A. NEWTON
NG CHOW FONG
J. NOBLE
H. A. NOORMAHOMED
WILLIAM NOTT
D. NOWROJEE
NOM FAN
E. PADANGY
EDWARD COFA
J. P. DA COSTA
P. A. DA COSTA
JAMES H. COX
A. COXON
D. R. CRAWFORD
WM. CRUICKSHANK
H. L. DALRYMPLE
WM. DANBY
C. DANENBERG
WILLIAM H. F. DANDY
H. W. DAVIS
J. KENNARD DAVIS
E. DEACON
VICTOR B. DEACON
C. J. M. DELGADO
H. L. DENNYS
HENRY DICKIE
F. C. DITTMER
W. E. H. DUSS
A. J. EASTON
A. EBRAHIM & Co.
A. ELLERT
G. B. EMORY
HAJEE ADAM ESMAIL
A. M. ESSAJIOT
J. FARBOW
FONG SUI FUSE
FOOK TAI
H. DE COUROY FORBES
W. FORREST
H. FOES
FRED. T. P. FOSTER
FOW HENG LOONG
JNO. J. FRANCIS
FUN SHUN HONG
FUNG TANG
ERICA GEORGE
D. GILLINS
T. G. GLOVER
J. GRANT
F. GROBIEN
M. GROTE
F. D. GEZER
A. APPANOR
S. HANCOCK
W. HARTIGAN
C. H. HASWELL, JR.
L. HAUSCHILD
THOS. C. HAYLLAR
HIM KOT
HING KEE
HO MOK
HO TONG
CECIL HOLLIDAY
GEO. HOLM
H. HOPPIUS
E. JONES HUGHES
W. KERFOOT HUGHES
FUNG CHEONG
JOHN D. HUTCHISON
H. HINDMAN
WILLIAM HYNES
R. INNES
T. JACKSON
F. JAMASJEE
H. G. JAMAI
A. B. JOHNSON
E. B. JORY
A. JORGE
F. J. JORGE
CHAS KAHN
KI HENG CHEONG
KOK YU CHUN
KO LOW U
KO MOON WAH
KONG UN
KOO LOONG
KUM CHEONG TAI
KWAN TAI
KWOK MO CHO
KWOK SUE LOW
KWONG CHEONG LUNG
KWONG FUNG
KWONG LUN TAI
BEI TRONG WAR UN
G. R. LAMMEET
LAM SING EK
LEE PAK NUM
LEE TAK CHEONG
WILLIAM LEGGE
LEONG CHAK LAM
LEONG YEW SANG
A. J. LEWIS
LI HING
LI PUN CHER
LING HOK MOON
C. PALLANTRE & Co.
E. PALLANJEE
B. C. PATELL
JAIRAZBHOY PEERBROY
JOSE MARIA G. PEREIRA
L. PORSNECKER
M. B. POLISH WALLA
POON WING CHUEN
PUNG KI CHING
QUOS FOOK LOONG
E. U. RAY
W. H. RAY
WM. REINERS
J. DOS REMEDIOS
J. A. DOS REMEDIOS
J. H. DOS REMEDIOS
A. J. V. RIBEIRO
F. X. V. RIBEIRO
C. W. RICHARDS
G. O. ROGERS
A. G. ROMANO
TRES. I. ROSE
KENNETH McK. ROSS
WAT. ROSS
P. S. DA ROZA
HORMUSJI RUSTOMJEE
S. RUSTOMJEE
D. RUTTUNJEE
P. RYEYE
SA FOO TANG
D. N. SAKLATVALA
SAM HING
SAM YET
F. D. SAUNDON
M. E. SAUNDON
D. SAYLE
B. SCHMACKER
H. SCHONBERGER
E. SCHWEBLIN
SEE SHING WO
EDMUND SHARP
F. H. LAGUEK
A. F. SMITH
H. SMITH
J. CRADLEE SMITH
W. McG. SMITH
F. SNOWDEN
M. SOUZA
M. A. A. DE SOUZA
JENSTON SQUIER
R. STEIL
FREDERICK STEWART
SZE LUN
SUS ON
A. SVENSON
SUN TAI LEE
SUN TAI WO
SUNG CHEONG LOONG
TACK LEE
TAI SAN TONG
TAKO YER MAN
TAI HENG
TAI WING
D. B. TATA
J. S. TAYLOR
JOHN THURBURY
B. F. TOLATEE
TONG WO BONG
H. J. H. TRIPP
S. F. TUMBOLY
U YOKE SAN
UN QI U
R. O. VANTA
J. Y. V. VERNON
HARRY WICKING
R. HATTERTON WILCOX
T. G. WILLIAMSON
WING CHEONG CHAN
WING HUNG
WING KEE
WING MOW CHEONG
WING YEE CHAN
WO CHAN
WO HANG
WO LUN
WONG CHAI SANG
WONG HOK CHOW
WONG YEK PUN
E. L. WOODIN
WILLIAM WOTTON
YECK LOONG
YEN LOONG
YIP TAI
YOW LOONG
WILLIAM YOUNG, M.D.
YOK LOONG