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OBITUARY.

THE CHINA MAIL.

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Arriving:

"I say, Bob" asked an 'acquaint- anco, Why did the foreman sack you yesterday?"

Well" was the reply," a fore- man is one who stands around and watches his gang work."

"I know; but what's that got to do with it?"

"Why, he got Jealous of me Feople thought I was the fore mam"

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three thousand taola por mow-at dertook the pioneer work, and for. a time when it would have been 20 yente he and Mast? Goldsmith MR. CRAWFORD DI KERR

quito impossible for the Council to laboured untiringly for seamer in buy it at all it It Bad been known that great port. When they lofe Another link with the old days that they were in the market Of laat year the organisation and In the Far East has been severed Couras he did all this work equipment for sailor work wers by the death, reported from gratuitously. He married Mra among the finest in the world Hyuras the well-known French Kerr 68 years ago st December The Missions to Senmen In the winter resort, of Mr. Crawford 16. I think she was Misa MacNair, other Australian ports, Bunbury, Davison Kerr: It is a good many and is a half alster of Lady Adelaide, Port Pirie, Sydney. Hobart, Newcastle NS.W., Band years since Mr. Karr left the East Dudgeon but he will be remembered by the Mr. Alexander Findlay Smith Brisbane, also owes much to Mr. older generation of China hands, The death took pisca at Ryde, and Mrs. Goldsmith In 1924 ha especially for his keen interest in Isle of Wight, on January 10% of resigned the Melbourne Chaplaincy the Volunteer movement both in Mr. Alexander Findlay Smith, a under doctor's orders, and accept- Hongkong and Shanghai, and for Justice of the Paace of Hengkong, ed an Invitation to start a branch his marksmanship at the ranges, and one of the pioneers of Its of the society in Kobe He was actually a member of the development. The late Mr. Smith, there in April last year, he had Seamen's Committee which in 1865 raised who was 81 years of age, went to already opened a the money and presented the Nu-Hongkong as a young man, and Institute and formed an influential tional Rifle Association with the spent all his business carter there. committee of buslaess men with magnificent China Cup trophy. Originally, we (L. & C. Express) the British Consul as chairman valued at 500 guineas, from the believe, with the firm of Lane. His death deprives saftore of one Volunteers. in China to the Crawford and Co., he embarked of their most devoted friends, sayS Volunteers. in Great Britain." upon the export and import bust the "L. & C. Express." This trophy is shot" for annually noss on his own account. He was: at the Bisley meeting. Having successful, and, looking around for beon a private in 1850 in the Brat other conquests, discovered the nd- School Corps to start volunteering, vantages of The Peak as a re the Eton College Volunteers. It was sidential area. Hure he built the not unnatural that Mr. Kerr on Peak Hotel, and devised the famous arriving in Hongkong in 1863, Peak Tramway, at the time joined the local Volunteers. The unique enterprise, as a feeder. The story of how the Cup originated tramway was built in 1884. was related by Mr. Kerr In last rises: 1,400 ft. In a distance of a year's May issue of the National little over a mile, and apart om Rifle Association Journal" theft utffity as providing an easy article being reproduced at length means of access to the many homes in The China Express" und that now cover the hill district, It "Telegraph" of June 4. Mr. Kerr & great attraction to tourists in soon became a non-commissioned that it provides wonderful views: officer, and was also appointed an of the city of Victoria, the harbour extra, A.D.C to. Sir Hercules and Kowloon beyondi. Mr. Smith's Colony. In addition, he was made is commemorated by one of the the Hon. Secretary of the Corps. Peak roadways which, hears his

"An' hae ye not a bad saxponce, The then Commandant waa Major name. A few years ago Mr. Frederick Brine, R.E. A most en Findlay Smith, in view of the deye gowk?" she retorted Royal

Magazine thusiastic officer. Major Brine was mand for increased facilities for the originator of the China Cup, reaching the Peak, planned another and through Mr. Kerr

trúmwuy with a more convenient municated the: iden to Shang-town terminus, but was "bought. hat where it was warmly re-out" by the existing Peak Tram-

The tide-table given below. has been the way Company, who had in contem complied at the National Almanac Office ceived, At. that time Northern Corps was commanded by platfon something of the kind them-in London from the result of the Mr. Robert Antrobus, to whose selves About five years ago Mr analysis of observations taken by means public spirit Shanghai owes much Findlay Smith sold his property, of an automatis tide-recording machine of its prosperity. Amongst other the Peak Hotel, and another large AS "The things, he was the founder of the dwelling-house known Shanghai Recreation Fund, which Farm to the Hongkong and acquired: the present cricket Shanghai Hotels Ltd.; for a very ground

large sum, andi definitely retired, and racecourse. Mr. Antrobus way backed by Messrs. He had led a very active life in John Markham, H.B.M. Const the Colony, yet he was also a great Edward Webb. Henry Dent, Frank traveller. Scarcely a year passed Groom, and others of the officers at one period but he made a trip and men, and a substantial sum abroad, and it was one of his boasta was sent down to the Hongkong that he had been thirty" times round committee, of which Mr. Kerr was the world. In later years blind- the hon. secretary, and the China ness overtook him, but, with his Cup was the outcome. The Hong: "boy" to point the way, be man- kong Volunteer Cerps was disbandaged to get around a good, dent ed in 1868, when the Garrison He had a fund of stories which he the Eblony was increased from delighted to relate, was extremely home, but the Shanghal Corps con- well ready and a most interesting tinued to flourish and Mr. "Kerr man in conversation.

"Among joined it in due course, his experiences he was called out to aasiat in the defence of the Settlement during the Boxer

As he passed the pavement artist! a Scotsman with a lordly air fùng a ahilling into his out-stretched hand. His wife immediately took

NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS Robinson, the then Governor of the initiative in opening up the Peak him to taak for his extravagance:

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HONGKONG TIDE.

in the Water Police Basin at. Telma She Teal during the years 1908-9.

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Mr. Eric M. Ross, trouble of 1900, when the Corps It is with deep regret, says the mustered 1,000 strong. The men, &'C Express" that we have all received the China medali In to announce the death, at sea, at addition to the China medul Mr. the comparatively early age of 46 Kerr prized the silver medal of the years, of Mr. Eric Munro Rose, National Rifle Association, which C.A., a member of the well known

H.K. HOTEL RESIDENTS. was sent out to be shot for by the firm of accountants, Messra. Lowe, Hongkong Volunteers, and which Bingham and Matthews, of London,

February 21. Hongkong, Shanghai: Tientsin and Mr G. & bead on Mr J. J. Kino inscription "Sergeant *0. DSingapore. The late Mr. Ross had Mr G. P. Anderson Mr and Mrs. B. J..

Mr N. G. Beale

Lacos Kerr, Hongkong Voluntiers, De spent many years in the East, dur-Mr A. E, Bogd Mias B. Lille cember 29; 1865."

ing the last 17 years of which he Mr G. H. Brooks

Mr H Maitland Mr.F. B. Marshall Mr. Kerr, on returning to Eng had been connected with the firm Mr T. R. Carlin

Mr E. Mollert and became interested in rubber, of Lowe, Bingham and Matthewar Wad Dowley

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most successful companies, until hat and becoming a partner many W forced some years ago, owing to years ago. He was well known in Mr and Mrs H. E. advancing years, to give up hie Shanghai, Hongkong and elsewhere connection. Indeed, he saw little in the East, and was extremely of London after the outbreak of popular. His death will therefore, the great war and with his wife be a matter of deep regret to his lived almost entirely abroad "in the many friends there. He recently French and Italian Riviera in left Shanghal and sailed for home UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGUNOT FLEET CORPORATION search of congenial climate and on the R. Morea." Whilst on health. His interest in China the voyage home he caught a chill by

affairs was, however, maintained which developed into. influenza to the end. In a letter we received from which he appeared to be con- from him, some little time ago. hevalescing, but when the ship reach mentioned occasional meetings ed Marseilles, at which he intend with old associates in China, and ed to disembark.. he was not so added Shanghai will be pleased well, and decided to come on to at Harry Morriss's success; lucky Blymouth. He became worse, and young beggar," which showed that died on January 18 while the. like most of his eontemporaries he vessel was still at sed. The body loved the "panies."

was sent from Plymouth to the We L. & C. Express) are, in-home of the deceased gentleman at. debted to a valued reader for the Tain, in Ross-shire, Scotland; following further particulars con- where the interment took place on cerning Mr. Kerr: At Eton he January 18 Mr. Ross was un- wan the cox of the Eton crew for married, and is survived by his one or more years. His father father, to whom every sympathy was of the same name, Crawford will be extended, the late Mr. Roas Davison Kerr, and was a partner being the last of his sons, two In Lindsay & Co., à leading Hong others having been killed, during in China; his grandfather was also the war.

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of the same name, and was chair-Rev. A. G. Goldsmith. man of Lloyd's very many years The Rev Alfred Gurney ago. Crawford was practically the Goldamich, the news of whose founder of the County Club at sudden death on January 17 at Shanghai, and it was through him Kobe at the age of 66 has been that the Council acquired the land received by the Missions to Sea- for what is now the Hongkow Park, men, was the senior chaplain of Under a private arrangement with the Society, having been appointed J. L., Scott, who was then Chairman a seamen a chaplain for Hong- of the Council, he bought the whole kong in 1885. Before that he had of the Park in small lots from the worked as a layman on the Tyne. native owners, through a well-During his ten years chaplaincy at known old Chinaman called A Hongkong he built a seamen's ins Kew, at very modest prices--two to stitute on the Kowloon side of the BANAYARITARNA harbour, and did much useful work ——— on the question" of Bunday labour on board British ships in the port. In 1898 he was obliged to come home for health reasons, and accepted the benefice of Appledore,

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