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THE HONGKONG DAILY PREJS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND

"TRUTH" ON ME, AB UCHERE.

CANDID REMINISCENCES,

The adage that no man in a hero to bis valet. was never bottor exemplified than in the extra ordinary reminiscences published in a recent Truth of Mr. Laboushere, who founded and controlled it."Trath" dwells on his un-Eng. lishness, his hatred of sport, his absterfouspen and hit shabbiness. It declares that he had little or no connection with Truth" beyond

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The writer remarks that many of the Laboucherest anecdotes might be traced to the hero of them, and they have probably lost nothing in the telling." He adds that the batter you knew Mr. Labouchers "the more ha

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astonished you, until you got to the point where NEW DELIVERY OF your capacity for astonishment was exhausted, Is not freak really the right word. for him?

"Ho was a great reader, and certainly a few years ago read more French books than any others. There was something Voltairean in his

in his flippant wit,

in

"GLYN'S" HATS.

proclivity for ridiculing cherished opinions, and NEW SHADES

bis

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AND STYLES IN SOFT FELTS.

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in his comprehensive scepticism. Sometimes he seemed almost to stand for the embodiment of NEW STRAWS.

Le spirit that reminded you of nobody bat Mephistopheles. He was certainly a cynic-the word hasno meaning if he was not one. Sentiment of any kind was thoroughly repugnant to him.

ME LABOUCHER'S SOFT SIDE: "It can hardly be asserted with truth that the real Laboaghere was a generous man in the ordinary sense of the term. The habit of giving way money, which is what I

suppose is meant by calling a man generons, was quito at variance with his general scheme of existence. And one cannot forget that what he gave away he gave away out of a huge super-abondance. Probably he never spent half his income, For many years what he drew from "Truth" alone would have well covered all the expenses, and ke was a rich was independently of Truth.”

"As a consequence of the soft side of his obaracter Labouohere was always according to my experience-e most ecay man to deal with if only you approached him in the right way. Again and again people who had been roughly handled in Truth quite justly got round him by the simple process of buttonbaling him and discussing the meelvas with him. Da ove occasion a money-leader who had been badly shown up

in Trath" insisted on seeing Labouchere personally. The visitor arrived, gave bis version of the transactions he wished to explain, and Labby (who up to that moment know nothing about the case) bowlod him out with a few shrewd

questions.

But as they got into conversation the tone became more and more amicable, antil at last Labby, Landing the of garettes, proceeded to erplain circumstantially how he would have done the business bad he been a money-lender, and Low his friend (for by this time he trested him quite as a friend) might get his percentaga in fataro without incurring unfavourable re- mark. The man left in the best of good humour The only two men against whom I over know him display strong animosity were Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Rosebery, What they ever did to ineur his hostility beyond all living politicians I have not the slightest ides.

LIVING ON COLD SAUBAGES.

When Labouchere came back from Florence 'all alone) to attend his 1st two parliamentary Bessions, be took a modest couple of rooms in Queen Anne's mansions. He related to us with great pride and satisfaction how cheaply he was doing it. The mansions gave him a coffee and a slice of toast in the

cup of morning for sixpence. He had feuad a delightful place for lunesh the Aerated Broad shop at the corner of Parliament-street. Here a particularly choice delicacy could be obtained, for which he had taken a grest ilking-two cold sausages, prica 4d. So you see," he said, triumphantly, as I don't often take any dinner I generally get through the day for tenpence."

For many years it was his habit to drop in of Truth" office on Monday or Tuesday morning and order lunch. The meal usually consisted of a chop just warmed through. Ha ate it without broad, salt, pepper, or drink of any kind, and stoking a cigarette all the time. I have soon bim with the ohop in one band and the oigaretto in the other, pausing to crack some joke. Vanles, who had to sit on the other side of the table while he was refreshing him. self, used to be horribly upset by the perfor

MENCA,

As soon as he felt the slightest inconveni ence from his teeth he had them out and sat to work on them with the first implement that came to hand. I have seen him prodding them about with the office scissors or battering them with a ruler. Have you get a bammer in the office, Youles he inquired one day, and,

the caretaker having produced one, be destroyed about fifty pounds worth of dentist's work in a few minutes. People tell you that some of Diskon chaasters are overdrawn and Impos sible. There is no character in all Dickens' nolles- tion so fail of opparently impossible come ex- travagances was Henry Labouchere in real life.

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In the ninties and pawards he used to go about London looking like a di'apidated bagman. It isa bit the worse for wear,' he once remarked, half apologetically, whoo I was helping him into his overovat. My wife won't let me go out in it, but I'm rather fond of it, and I hide it from her. He bebe," and then came the Mephis tophelian ebuckle. He used to come to the office in one old jacket which excited mach interest and mirth among the junior staff, one of whom declared that he could smell it coming up the stairs. One day Labby arrived in a more presentable garment, and complained bitterly that Mrs Labozohere had surreptitiously captured the old jacket. A week later, to the general horror, be re-appeared in it, babbling over with glee, 'T're done her,' he said to Vonles. I found it' He never said where, but I suspect that he recovered it from the dustbin.

REAL MAKER OF "

TRUTH.” "He habitually kept enormous sume-tons of thousands of pound-to his credit at ble bank

on current account. One of his funny habita was to comes to the ofloe with his pass-book in his pocket and asb. somebody to tell him how mach he had te bis orodit. When I have sexisted bim in taking out the balance it always proved to be well over £20,000, and I doubt if it was ever under that figure.

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+ When Lebonchers "started" Truth" he was, as Horace Voules described him, like a

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(as the records show) he did the dramatic criti- cism, the financial articles, and the politics, besides letting himself loose on every other subject that came into his head. But then he found another new toy, and one very much more to his taste, which lasted him virta. ally till the end of his life. In 1830 he w elected for Northampton.

made Truth"

It was Horace Veles who made

as it has been known to the public for the last twenty-five years. Labouchere's part in all the troublesome libel that "Truth "fought in the days When Tomkes was editor was to come and sit beside George Lewis in Court when we got to trial, and receive compliments of the Press and public after the victory. The net result of it ell was that Hornos Voulon made one of the greatest successes in the records of journalism, and that so far as the public are concerned the whole credit of it rests with Laboushare to this day.”

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

THE P. & O. 89. N. Co.'s Steaizer

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FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.

Consignees of Cargo by the above-named Fessel are heroby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR RIBE in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each. Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Croods are Landed,

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From London, &3., 01 9.8. "Marmora " From Persian Gulf, ex 8.8. B. I. 8. N. and B. & P. S. N. Co.'s Steamers. Optional Gooda will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary within 6 hours.

Goods not cleared by the 22nd inst., at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me fu any case whatever.

Damaged Packages must be left in the Go downs for examination by the Consignees and the Company's Surveyors Mesers. GONDAED & DOUGLAS, at 10 AM, on MONDAYS and TREES. DAYS. Survey will be held at 10 A.. TUESDAY, Year. All Claims must be presented within ten the 20th, instead of MONDAY, owing to China New days of the steamer's arrival hore, after which. date they cannot be recognized. No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Głodowns.

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FROM EUROPE. THE HAL. Steamship THE

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