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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFII, WEDNESDAY, June 15, 1988,

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Personalities Of Old Hongkong

Sir

George Bonham

Governor Who Carried

Out Hard Task

By T. PAUL GREGORY

One of the most difficult as well as embarrassing positions as a prelude to office was the lot of Hongkong's Y-third Governor-Sir Samuel George Bonham. He was the expected to rectify all the mistakes of his predecessor, Sir John Davis, and to restore the harmonious relationship between the residents of the Colony and the Government. How well he accomplished his arduous task is illustrated by the sober statements of colonial history which record that whilst he was not, perhaps, a great Governor, he was, however, "noted for his liberal sentiments, and, his close application to the affairs of the Colony, which earned for him the esteem of the settlers as much as Sir John Davis had unfortunately gained their resentment."

Sir Samuel George Bonham sored by him was, to say the was born in England on Septem- least "farcical, and unseemly of ber 7, 1803. lie was the son of the administration of a colonial George Bonham, a sen captain Governor."

ap- and master of a sailing vessel in Governor Bonham was the service of the East India parently not much impressed

Hongkong Telegraph. Company. He early determined with the working of the Supreme

ever

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CHECK IS ONLY TEMPORARY

waste an enormous tract of

over-

to follow in the fontsteps of his Court; for he abrogated its de- father, and was in the employ cisions in every way

Hail Now Regime

the Far East

had been

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that he

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

RED

"Please, dear, don't call up every hour and ask if I still love you- you know I hate to talk shop!"

HEATHER THATCHER tells you

How to

front.

be Happy in Hollywood

across the

who

.

He

premises.

Eight, hundred dog meals are

of the company at an age when could. Judge Walter J. Hulme,

Hollywood. pily for three months, and go most lads of his time were yet the founder of the august body,

live in to Reno and get divorced without HOW do they in school. So rapidly did he rise having been dismissed by Davis,

Hollywood? You'd be getting out of your car." to positions of trust that before left the Colony with much of the

While on the subject of eating he was thirty he was entrusted work of the Court in a chaotic surprised. I want to tell you with the governorship of Prince state. Some of his decisions of some of the remarkably in- I would like to tell you how a It is unlikely that anyone will of Wales Island, and subsequent- were regarded by Sir George as teresting things about life here great many of the people out

know the truth of the ly of the Settlements of Singa- reprehensible and he immediate-quite apart from the film here feed their pets.

I had often heard about "Dog- Dinner" and wondered origin of the present Yellow pore. Penang and Malaces. He ly took efforts to annul many world.

There are novelties and idens gies' was, moreover, a bosom friend of them. One of those which River floods which are laying of Sir John Davis, also an old came under his just censure was by the dozen which must have a exactly what it meant. Not long servant of the East India Com- the series of sentences passed in strange fascination for English ago I met the owner and ori- country, threatening the lives of pany, and it was natural that he the July Criminal Sessions on people. Let me begin by des- ginator, Mr. Ger Sunde,

"drive-ins" which first started The Famous Canine thousands of Chinese peasants should be chosen to fill the post nine Chinese who had been co-cribing the

It simultaneously

was, of victed of piracy, and sentenced impressed me so much when I Health Co. and "Doggies' Din- and

vacated by him.

ner" in Boston in 1980 and came whelming the mightiest army

course, assumed that he was to to punishment ranging from arrived in California,

out here two years ago. I remember so distinctly my offered to take me over his which has ever marched in the be Davis's successor, but few death for the principals to

in the Colony knew that he was imprisonment and banishment first visit to one of these, I Far East. The 70,000-odd

These men in fact the direct nominee un- for the others.

drew up in front of a semi- convicted on the Japanese who were driving for til much later.

circular building facing the main Chengchow, smashing position

evidence of a man by name road. A very attractive girl at- delivered each day, and the food, of Too A-po, miscreant, after position with their heavy

who, being arrested for a felony, tendant stepped forward in well prepared by a special staff dur- guns, capturing line after line

It was announced that Sir decided to turn Queen's evidence cut maroon slacks, bell-boy jac- ing the night, is ready to leave of trenches with their lumber- George Was leaving England in order to free himself, and ket, and a pill-box cap tilted over at 8 o'clock the next morning in ing tanks, seizing city after en route to

on then further to ingratiate him- one eye and with the name of refrigerator trucks. city with their armoured car January 20, 1848 and would ar- self with the police acted as a the owner in gold units leading the infantry in, rive here in the latter part of "tool-pigeon" on their behalf.

She gave me the menu with have been stopped-by a wall of March. This proved to be a Naturally, evidence given by muddy water. The river which very accurate prognostication of such a person was highly sus-lists of delicious foods to choose and colu the new Governor's movements: picious, and Governor Bonham from, such as hot has caused China но much for the P. & O. Steamer Pekin

to be sandwiches of every description, was generally conceded misery in the past has now come which he sailed reached right in condemning the me- hamburgers, and fried chicken, to her rescue, it seems; and Hongkong on March. 20. His thods employed in securing con- with every possible sort of hot although many poor peasants disembarkment at noon was at- victions in this case. A Bection and cold drinks. who have not fled from the flood tended with the customary cere of the public, however, mis-

Drive-In Cinemas mony. The cannon of the men understood the Governor's mo- are drowned or left to war in harbour boomed forth tives and roundly condemned

SHE slipped her number starve by the rising waters,

a salute of seventeen guns, and him for showing undue leniency

in the windscreen- there will be thousands who will scarcely had the echoes of the towards the Chinese convicted wiper of my car, took my order, feel that the Yellow River has ceremonial cannonade died away in the Colony. Governor Bon- and within five minutes a spot- repaid something of what it than Sir George was received on ham, nevertheless, persisted in less tray arrived, which she fixed owes the country for having sub-land by Sir John Davis, the his policy, and the magnanimity inside by a metal hook to the

I turned on for busy mothers with babies is dued, at least for a little time, G.O.C. Major-General Stavely, of the man was shown by his lowered window.

and a military guard. The way interest in the lowliest members my wireless, ate in great com- the Infant Service, which is the to Government House was lined of the community; scarcely any fort, tickled to death with the original and oldest laundry on with troops and some of the other Governor has taken such | whole idea.

the Pacific Coast. Unlimited populace in the anticipation of sincere interest in the prisoners A little later I tooted my horn, bundles of baby clothes are the speedy inauguration of a new convicted by the Courts. He and away she came with the bill, picked up daily from regime hailed Sir George with a personally reviewed the cases of 50-cents (2s.), and off I went. and returned the following morn- steady round of cheers. On each one, and if he thought there

It may sound a lazy way of ing for the sum of 108. per on the Peiping-Hankow line, cut March 21, the new Governor was any indication of injustice eating, but I am sure there are week, and for collection every off from Chengchow, their objec- took the usual oaths of office in whatsoever he forthwith exer-many like myself who hate cat other day 7s. per week. tive, and have lost men and Council and assumed the duties cised his prerogative as Governoring in public alone. I personally Skirts Shorter much equipment in the flood, of his post. Some of them, not to "quash" the sentences if pos-would far sooner does not mean that the threat ably that of serving as Superin- sible.

areas

the hated invader.

One victory does not guarantee the winning of a war-unless it be the last one. And the fact that the Japanese have been checked in their westward drive

on

go without.

Only the best meat is used, and it is packed in little waxed boxes according to the size of

of dinners vary from 10s. to the dog. Prices for the delivery

£2 48. per month.

A week's trial is given to any

new client, and special diets are delivered for dogs who may be under a vet.'s care.

Here is a typical menu: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Lamb or mution. Cooked beet Liver and hearts. Raw beef.

Fish.

Saturday Sunday

Liver and kidneys- Cooled beer.

Another labour-saving device:

AN

houses

Vells

Also, when one is in a great

ND now a line or two to Hankow is in any great tendent of Trade, had been pre-

hurry, the "drive-in" saves time.

about clothes. measure diminished. No act of dated as much as three months, One Serious Mistake

Skirts are much shorter, but Many of them are open all night, Providence alone is sufficient to thereby clearly showing that gave China from further incur-Sir John Davis had intended community at large

Furthermore, although the and it is quite a usual sight to all have a distinct flare, and hats sions, for unfortunately modern leaving the Colony

was pre- see parties in evening dress at are of the halo style, way back as soon as judiced against him for his in-two o'clock in the morning park- on the head, giving women the armies can move by air and Bonham arrived.

terference with the Courts, heled in front of them.

appearance of youth, providing water.

the The flooding of

The residents of the Colony acted in the best interests of all, Honan plains may give the

In the summer the drive-in they are worn. with discretion. defenders of Hankow more time were hopeful that the adminis- He perhaps made only one seri-cinemas are packed. These are They remind me very much of tration of Governor Bonham ous mistake and that was his simply open-air enclosures where my school-day hats, but instead to perfect their system of defence, may have thrown some would restore cordiality and un- refusal to dismiss the Acting the picture is projected on to of the tight elastic under the

way the mistakes Attorney General, Charles Mal- thing into the scale on China'ado in every

an enormous screen, the audi- chin a soft ribbon is tied. side, but it is a far way from of his predecessor; but they were loy Campbell, the Anglo-Indian ence comfortably sitting in their predominate still, but now hang winning the war: Chinese in to say the least, too sanguine. barrister whose arbitrary con-

cars watching the very latest from the side of the hat or from the top of a pointed crown.. Hongkong who hail the floods as Whilst Sir George was perhaps duct during his term of office is film under the stars.

was only considered to be a blot on the

Peasant dresses are also seen the beginning of the end of the an improvement he

All headlights are switched Japanese army of intrusion are human, and though he endea- history of the Colony during his premature and entirely too op- Voured to do his best, he, of time. Governor Bonham, how off, and the only lights to be a great deal here, some with a course, was bound to antagonise over, excused his netion of con- seen are those from hundreds wide band of embroidery four to Meanwhile, it would seem wise some of the settlers in some way tinuing to keep Campbell in of cigarettes, looking like little five inches from the hem in for foreign authorities to take or other sooner or later. At office as being "for reasons of red glowworms in the night. Of various bright colours and also in Indian Paisley, very full steps to remove from danger first, he proceeded with laudable delicacy" but perhaps the real course, this climate lends itself round the yoke; another style skirt, quito short, with a squaro points in Hankow and its vicinity caution and for the first year or reason was that he was too big to such a thing as this.

I read an amusing reference neck and puffed sleeves. This remaining non-essential so took great care as to the hearted and accordingly inclined

tho nationals who are not bound to course of the legislation enacted to overlook the glaring dis-by a visitor the other day to vogue has brought back

these "drive-ina." THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD, remain at their posts. It is in the Colony, and during the crepancies in the character of

scarf, which is tied under the He said: "You drive in to a chin in pennant fashion, and very DEERDERCERON fairly certain that Japan will year 1850 only five Ordinances the man who much later loft the

resort to serial attack to subdue were passed. This was a great Colony's ahores "bounded from restaurant, you drive in to the attractive it looks. Hankow, at least in the early contrast with the record of Sir office and barred from his pro-movies, you drive in to almost This is a perfect place for in- stages of the operation, and be John Davis, who fathered all fession."

everything. Thoy

have formality. No one bothers about ford artillery can be brought to sorts of laws upon the Colony, Whilst Governor Bonham was

drive-in marriage licence what other people wear, although bear. It will be no place for any- and brought upon Hongkong, a in the Colony, he was knighted

bureaux.

I must say it was a bit strange one but the fighting men-and reputation for legal quackery, and the London Gazette of

"It won't be long before you to see a man walking along the very uncomfortable for them. Jus much of the legislation apon- (Continued on: Page 3.) can make love, marry, live hap- (Continued on Page 3).

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