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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1988.

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ANNOUNCEMENT

The wedding of My G W Guten and Mass E E Huiry will take plaer at St Andrew Church, Kowken, to Monday, June 27, 1938, at 4 pan and not at 4.30 previously annoubeed, Invitations are not being sent mordially frierin mvited to the veremony and to

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1938.

IS APPEASEMENT WORKING?

arbitrament of war WRS 1-

Co-

nounced and in its plice there WILS 10 be conciliation and arbitration. Every nation was to be guaranteed against external

International aggression. operation was to replace jingois- tic nationalism. An era of all round disarmament Was replace the disastrous competi- tion in armaments.

Personalities of Old Hongkong

·

The Hon. Mr. William Henry Adams

Printer, Reporter, Editor, Barrister, Politician, And Chief Justice

By T. Paul Gregory

FEW individuals in the history of Hongkong can better deserve the designation of “self-made" than the Hon. William Henry Adams, Attorney General and subsequently Chief Justice of the Colony from 1859 to 1863. It was entirely through his own efforts that ho rose in the world and his career showed that he was a man of considerable ability, and initiative. He was in turn, compositor, proof-reader, reporter, aub-editor, editor, newspaper proprietor, barrister, Member of Parliament, and ultimately Attorney General of Hongkong.

ferent in the profession of journalism.

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"He'd be quite a catch, daughter-he's my only aulesman

straight salary!"

CLEMENCE DANE asks

What is a

a

Wife Worth?

are

property-

HOW much is a wife; But to-day women

Fowning vitizens, capable of self-

worth-in cash?

other

The necessity for support. How much is a husband worth support has vanished.

Edgor Business Partnership

of ments

out of date.

the

Sanders, adorable

primitive mun

41

One is templed to say that sucti husband and wife have no more right to leave each other in the lurch than two members of any other going concern. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that if the partnership Is

made broken the money losses should be good by the breaker of the partnership,

mere

on his

William Henry Adams was to purchase the very paper on so much time. born at Normancross, Hunting- which he spent donshire, England in the year As a newspaper publisher and a 1809. He was the son of Thomas successful barrister, he Adams, Esq., a man in poor cir- now in a position to make his in- cumstances, so that he was un- fluence felt, and it is not sur- able to provide his son with the prising that he successfully con- advantages which would aid him tested Boston in 1857 and snt in in his struggle with the world. the House of Commons as its Young Adams studied a few representative until 1859. years in the village school and

His name was now well known and with then was put to work in order throughout Britain, to help support the family. The Mr. T. C. Anstey's dismissal from Generalship of job that he procured would not the Attorney prove very attractive to most Hongkong confirmed by the Se- modern inds: for it was that of cretary of Stute for the Colonies. a printer's "evil" in the village Queen Victoria appointed him in print shop. After some years' his stead.

breame 4. Mr. Adams arrived in Hong- apprenticeship. he journeyman

and kong by the P. & compositor

0. steamer travelled around the country Malabar on September 7, 1859. in search of employment. His The newly appointed Governor, į work as a type-setter and later Sir Hercules Robinson was in--in cash? as a proof reader in the various cidentally a passenger

on the I have not been reading newspaper offices in England and same boat, and it is significant Wallace I am not quoting the com~

THEN what should become of Wales aroused in him an in- that their association on the Plaints of Besambo, nor the judg

the damages? Should the voyage inaugurated A warm These are English questions asked by petitioner himself retain them? The

idealist cries: "No!" friendship which was to in- men and women in the past year. But then the Idealist forgets that

Doen a husband own his wife? Il His experience in reading fluence the course of affairs in would seem so. In the past 40 years nowadays marriage is first of all a proof had taught him the essen- the Colony.

her value lins been put as high as business partnership.

It costs money to get married: it tials of newspaper style, and fre

£25,000, as low as one farthing, ond now felt that he could turn out

the thief has had to pay for making costs money to rear children: it costs with such valuable or negligible money to keep a home going. The average husbond has sunk his capital, "copy" at least as good as that

The first appearance of the way with

property. which he WOS compelled to new Attorney General in the

Here, on the face of it, is an odd his business training, and his wages proof-read, and consequently his Supreme Court was on Septem-state of affairs, and it would be easy, in the partnership; the average wife. When the Covenant of the next step was to secure a job as ber 12. It was noteworthy from by collecting a list of damage cases, has sunk her capital, her time, her League of Nations was signed it | A reporter. He was

now in the fact that Mr. Adams initiat to work up a most eloquent tirads work, or wages in the partnership. It

on "man-made laws" and "another is a going concern. was felt that the nations were

what he termed his “seventh ed a new practice of opening | injustice to women.” heaven, and henceforth pro- court promptly at 10 o'clock a.m. about to embark on a new and gross was rapid. He also be instead of postponing the ses- Out of Date higher standard of internationalcame interested in the study of sion, as had his predecessor, un- BUT

QUT before doing so let us morality. The bad old days of the law, and managed to com- til пооп. His insistance

find out just what this ap- back-door diplomacy and intrigue bine his interests so that he ser- punctuality greatly impressed Parently insulting business of damages really means; for there's generally were replaced by "open agreeved as legal reporter for the the residents of the Colony and common sense and justice behind the

It is not mere chance that one hus- ments, openly arrived at." The Morning Herald. Although, he the Press commented favourably oddest rulings of English law. The

£1,000, another recovera eventually rose to be a sub- upon it, expressing confidence in trouble is that even justice can get bund

The Law tries to farthing. editor, and later editor of the his firmness and ability. Mr. What are damages?

assess the damages according to cer- paper, the law now became his Adams was now fifty years old, "Damages," to quote the late Lord tain principles. prime interest, and at length his and perhaps his years of toil had Birkenhead, are compensation for The law eaks: "What has the bus- spare time reading enabled him somewhat prematurely aged the loss which the spouse who brings band lost in hard cash? His house- keeper has gone: what is her work to become a barrister. He was him. Nevertheless, he proceed the petition has sustained."

Damages were once a necessity. worth to him? Or a husband is a called to the Bar of the Middle ed to show his mettle and dis- when aturally aid have wife's nursing. The damages in that

cows for cripple entirely dependent Temple in 1843, and as an ad- tinguished himself for his ima wife

if he case would be very heavy.

But the husband has lost not only vocate soon acquired a lucrative partiality and fairness in ad- them returned with interest practice. However, he did not ministering justice.

The local were cheated by his living bargain.

Nearer our own times it became his housekeeper but the comfort und desert his first interest residents were delighted with an unwritten law that part, at any society of wife-as the lawyers say, Journalism--but continued in it him; abuses which had been rate, of

If, however, the damages paid by the co-"hot consortium » more ardently than ever; for allowed to remain ever since respondent was settled on the wife wife is a baggage or a drunicard that For some years after the now he was able to carry out the the founding of the Colony or her children. And this, too, was "consortium" lo obviously valueless. abolished, and common sense and decency in times The husband is well rid of her to the Covenant came into force these dreams of his earlier years and were fearlessly

when a married woman was regarded luckless third person the triangle. Hongkong was no longer regard-as Petruchio regarded Katharine.

new point, high hopes were fulfilled to a

ed at Home as the "place where "She is my goods, my chattels: Should anyone be responsible for Then one Spain have been dashed. It was libel flourished and corruption surprising extent.

she is my house...

damages but the breaker of the part- principle was abandoned in 1931 should not come into force until a stipulation that the pact

My horse, my ox, my ass, my nership? Is it fair to penalise a was rampant."

anything,"

third person who is under no bond and since then the whole edifice the foreign volunteers had been The Governor Sir Hercules Married women had no property. or obligation to the injured party?

Is it fair that the law should nt all has been crumbling with alarm-withdrawn from the Spanish Robinson felt that he had in What was to become of them if they

deserted by their lovera? welgh the co-respondent's behaviour! ing rapidity. To-day interna-arena, and, it may be guessed, Adams the very man to tsist were

against starvation ог the streets, respondent was married, and did he national morality has touched it was Great Britain's idea that him and he at once named him Domages was a merciful safeguard The law aska: "Did he know that the

the removal of intervention to a seat on the Executive Coun-

become acquainted with her through meeting her as her husband's guest would see a more rapid settle-cil. As a member of the Gov-

her own home?" If he did, the the Great War. The result is ment of the Spanish problem. ernor's council, the Attorney speedy recovery of his health chances are that the damages would chaos.

The fact that Britain demanded General rendered himself in- and his prompt return to the be higher.

The injury to the husband's feel- "Can the world get back to this withdrawal by Italy is signi- valuable, and his advice helped Colony.

ings for which he is also entitled that higher standard of morality ticant, indicating that without to assure for Sir Hercules

Early Death

to compensation-would, it is argued, unruffled administra- that existed prior to the Man-this concession on the part of smooth,

The Hon. W. H. Adams; the be greater.

In both enticement and divorce churia incident? That seems to Rome, the benefits of the agree-tion.

Chief Justice, who had but short- cases the damages are calculated in ment were not balanced. There be the crucial question. If this Have been

His appointment as Attorney ly left the Colony died at the much the same way. But is it a no very striking General is the essential problem of inter-efforts made to remove the temporary one, and on April 4, Adams, at Plas Llysssyn, Carno, anyone responsible but the breaker

was, however, but a residence of his sor, Captain some way?

And here comes a new point. Is national affairs at the present volunteer units by either side. 1860, the Governor nominated Montgomeryshire, Wales, on of the partnership? Is It fair to moment then clearly any pro-It seems likely that a further Mr. Adams to be the Chief Jus- August 29, 1866 at the age of 56 penalite a third person who is under

compromise must be offered if posed

the Italo-British agreement is

tice of the Colony. This change years. He had been in failing bond or obligation to the injured examined from the standpoint going to have a chance to bear in official position was due to health for some time, and the of whether or not it contributes fruit-before the end of Spanish the naming of John Smale to news of his passing which reach-They Choose to Change

October 26, to the rebuilding of a code hostilities and before Italy has serve on the Bench as Attorney ed Hongkong on

General. In the meantime, the "cast quite a gloom over the

THIS squeezing of damages of international morality, or had her way in Spain. Lord whether, in fact, it makes more Plymouth is trying to arrange climate of Hongkong did not place where he had been much suggest that grown-up people now- prove to be conducive to the liked." A local paper alluding days can be enticed away from their difficult that task. It is when an armistice and this, it is health of the new Chief Justice, to his death, thus spoke of him: partners as if they were childres or

half-wits. [considered, might allow the im- the Anglo-Italian agreement. Isplementation of the agreement. His constitution, which ap- "It is almost too painful for us Can they? I don't believe it. The viewed in that light that many Such an arrangement will seem parently had never been strong, to speak of his many estimable average man when he leaves his wife who welcome any genuine to some unsatisfactory, as it still suddenly became greatly impair qualities, at a time when ad knows what he's doing. The average Trliby, hypnotised attempt at appeasement are falls to remove the dangered, and Mr. Adams, to the great miration ought properly to give away from sanity. Men and women continued regret of the residents of the way to grief. There cannot be leave their mates because they choose somewhat perturbed by certain apparent ih

Colony, began to elements in it," writes Mr. Hebe presence of foreign troops on thoughts of going back to Eng- with which he discharged his

entertain two opinions as to the ability to change. They themselves break

the partnership. Spanish soll. It is bound to be

Compensation, then, for the break- Spaull, the Geneva commentator. said, It Britain tolerates this land. However, he stayed here office. A juster, a more con-up of home or actual money loasen

reasonable. It Great Britain and Italy seem to compromise, that this is just an- as long as he could, and it was scientious, or an abler man never seems place great confidence in this other instance of diplomatic re not until April 1, 1863 that he sat upon the Bench in this reasonable, however, for a husband to lament the loss of "expectations" agreement, but it has made no treat. And some will look upon departed for home on sick leave. Colony. Every one must admit of his wife's fortune, and absolutely tremendous impression upon the it as worse than retreat. One Every one was reluctant to see that his judgments wore dell-nexplicable that he should clolm rest of the world, and the high commences to feel, with Spaull, him go, and all sections of the vered with care and with great compensation for damage to l

that this treaty business opens community including the Chi- undeniable wisdom. Ho hopes held by many that it would the door to diplomatic sharp neue inhabitants presented ad- one of the best men that ever hasten an end of intervention in practice...

dresses to him, hoping for the came to China, or left it."

to

low levels undreamed of before

settlement

must

be

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To lose by death or to, lore by change of heart in one of the risks

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