1938-07-20 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1988.

Personalities of Old Hongkong

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In any Crown Colony, there are bound to be amongst the host of Civil Servants sent out over a long period of years, men of outstanding talent as well as those of more mediocre ability. Of the latter type, one could fairly class the first Attorney-General of Hongkong. He the Hon. Paul Ivy Sterling, and if we are to believe the impartial judgments of history, his sojourn here of nearly eleven years was largely marked by groping efforts at reconciling the apparent novelty of English law and court procedure to that of the ancient customs and prejudices of the Colony's Chinese.

The Hon. Paul Ivy Sterling all set for a legal career of sur- was born in Queen's County, passing eminence, and on Octo- Ireland in the year 1804. He ber 1, the Supreme Court was was the eldest son of the Rev. formally opened with all the Joseph Sterling, a rector of a solemnity and ceremony befitting father's such an occasion. It was in country parish. His

Hongkong Telegraph. position, however, enabled him reality a gala event,

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1938.

cording subject.

he

FASCISM MARCHES

and the

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to secure an excellent education, whole Colony turned out and he graduated at Trinity Col- masse to witness the seating of:

dignitaries on the Bench. lege, Dublin, and, subsequently the becoming interested in the study To the Chinese inhabitants, too,

Whether Mr. Sterling's a}}-

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Cape, 1931 by Cariad Esatari

"Don't let it upset you, Mrs. Snodgrass-I'll just put it on your

milic bill."

CATS THAT GO WILD DON'T LAST LONG

Пow came it wild?

we came

NO

At the moment, they are there to like a shadow at the slightest quick

in. On this

movement

of the mavent

After a week he became used to and even human movements,

After another

more

at

of the law, he entered King's the event was a picturesque oneTALKING up the sleep field-edge | amoller cats remain; the third, our Chief to Hanghigh Wood, I saw a large young friend Tommy-Tommy, has Inn for that purpose. He was and the sight of the called to the Irish Bar during Justice, Mr. Hulme, the At-cut sitting at the edge of the trees. already gone.

All that is left of Tommy-Tommy It saw ine a moment afterwards; (as the children named him) is his mecow. This Trouble appears to be in the the Michaelmas Term in 1829, torney-General, Mr. Sterling and Immediately I stood still.

the full Bar in their robes and gave a swift, crouching stare; turned plaintive going-wild and shortly afterwards pro-

the and little cry was imitated by the Was belly-low;

among gone making on two frontiers, and ceeded to London, where he wigs was an impressive sight.

face was broad, its starlings in the trees over the chalk Although, the Court started nettles. Its there may or may not be some undertook a course of further

with favourable aplomb, whiskers long, its eyes were yellow quarry, and now is part of their com-

with Intense, concentrated scrutiny. munal spring song." connection between them. Any-study at Gray's Inn. He was off

But Tommy-Tommy longer now a full-fledged barrister so there was still a great deal to 1 was wild.

A tame cat has some hours or walks to greet me, fail in air and a one who has over read anything to speak, and we find that from be done, and it was over a de-

his uttering

reproachful dream, or unfocus from the where--have-you-been mew, before the old system of imperial his twenty-sixth to his thirty- cade before the legal administra-periods of relaxation, when its eyes twitch, tactics-and one does not have ninth year he engaged in an ex- tion of the Colony commenced to can

tensive private practice.

In function with any of the effl movements of Le about it. The turning over on his head and roll- muscles of its eyes are slacker than ing on his back-a trick taught him to go beyond recent history fact, his reputation became so ciency that it so commendably those of a cat whose life lo always In littenband by old Jimmy, who.

fact, al-lived on the sharp edges of sight and first brought Tominy Tommy to be u patent he displays to-day. In may suspect that the German great that it was

rat-catcher in the corn barn, was sound.

Had the cat been tame, it would press talk of Czecho-Slovakian would come to the notice of the though the Chief Justice

TOMMY-TOMMY was a shy, Home Government who were apparently the right man for his have stared at me, probably sitting

swift, fleeing young cat military activity and the then casting about for eminent position, the man chosen for the un. Had it been half-wild, it would Japanese reports of an invasion legal talent to go to the Far East post of Attorney-General soon have crouched, but would have re- when first I saw him. He and an- mained "frozen" until moved again. other lived in the turnip house, from of Manchukuoan territory by in the capacity of a quorum for proved to be rather a disappoint-ut this cat, all of its senses super which they visited the bullock yards, the newly organised Court in ment. Mr. Sterling, in short, sharp in wildness, did not wait for the pigs' pens, the granary, hay- the Soviet are inter-related. It Hongkong.

seemed to lack the pioneer me p tuke: the initiative. It barn, cornbarn, stables, in a regular round. First they caught mice; then spirit necessary to persevere in vanished. BD5364. has long been an accepted rule

small rats, which they killed and atc quickly. of the game of imperial con- Great Things Expected a newly opened Colony, and the

I think I can truly imagine!

When environment its history. There are many ents in

to live in the vastly different

last granary,

autumn, Tommy- quest to start the actual cam-\pointment as Attorney-General Prevailing in the East, proved | English woods returned to wildness.

visit us, slinking Indeed, there are two generations Tommy used to JACQUES BD5301 paign by forcing "an incident" of this Colony was influenced by to be an almost unsurmountable

of cats being prepared for wildness through a hole in the flapping door, huskily mewing, and ready to flee upon the intended victim, ne- the decision of Judge John

on my farm now. Walter Hulme, the newly Glaring Inefficiency catch rats. At least, two to authorities on this

nominated Chief Justice, we Garratt, in his "Mus- do not know, but

Most of those carly Criminal know from the old Sessions in the Colony S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. solini's Roman Empire", recalls we

although he was able at any paper moment to run weck he was sleek the classic example of Walwal chronicles of Hongkong that marked by examples of glaring Court room by the witness be-squatted on the mat by the stove:

things great

were expected inefficiency, and it was a wonder ing sworn as a proof that what the Italians of him. His arrival here on how justice could have been were written or (supposed to be

He stayed in anxiously administered

First, written) various details, such as and used to us. learned of tactica long foregone July 28, 1844

morning he brought young rats and awaited, and the public were there was the difficulty of secur the date, the name of the wit-night, although always during the I am sure this by rivals in the imperial field confident that he would further ing qualified interpreters, and ness, etc. The Chinese, how-jaid them at my feet. was put to good use against the enhance the splendid reputation the Court was confronted with ever, when called upon to swear was gratitude.

DUT ut Christmas "we left unfortunate Negus. Probably he had already earned at Home. an ever rising series of predica- by this means could scarcely re-

D for the cottages, which that the evidence) were soon found

or less (chicily less) is not wrong. The whole The reception afforded him on ments which would impair the strain their mirth, and it was

his arrival was noteworthy, and deliberations of even a Solon. elicited under such circumstan-ready. Tommy-Tommy was left of Italy's campaign was a series a few days afterwards he was Most of this was due to the of well-thought-out diplomatic duly gazetted as a member of awkward situation arising from ces was invariably as devoid of behind to kill the rats. He waited truth as if the witness had not for us, day after day, by the closed granary door. He fed with the and finally practical military the Executive Council of the administering the oath to wit- been sworn in at all. This state chickens every afternoon; but un- moves calculated to avoid aus- then Governor, Sir Francis nesses in the Court. The Chi- of affairs went on for a number casily.

of course, entirely of years, until at length, a really It was then that those greasy, pro- picion that there was any real, Davis. In fact, everything was nese were,

letarian, oll-hued treetop tinpan ignorant of English, procedure, competent interpreter was hired premeditated evil intended

and there were many ludicrous at a salary of £150 per annum. vites, the starlings. over on tho for new sounds and noises against 猛 harmless state-statesmen have admitted this to attempts to adopt some harmless, in spite of the allega- be the case.

ex This was Mr. Caldwell, who was like the commercial donee songs- pedient which would conform tion that it still was a strong-

to native customs. Every one history of the Colony at this noises), learned the plaintive, nostal

soon to figure extensively in the ters, they have little musle of their There is another possibility, seems to have had a different period.

own, beyond clucking or percussive hold of slavery. There may be of course; that Japan, made opinion, and there were unseemly

gic mew which we will hear long a parallel in the present German aware of "something stirring" scenes in the Court when the He was certainly the only utter Tommy-Tommy is dead.

For he is doomed. He will grow outery against Czecho-Slovakian

Czecho-German border Jury would disagree with the man then in the Colony who like the old wild cat I saw for an military preparations. At most, is now ready to challenge the Attorney-General as to the mode tality and could speak the lan- Wood. He is already halfway to the actually knew the Chinese men-instant on the edge of Hanghigh there seems little foundation for Russians, hoping for their con- to be followed. The Chinese the German excitement.

at the Czech situation-themselves gave no hint as to themselves. When he was ask-

guage as well as the people complete shyness of the wild. in any event what could the which may very easily develop how they wanted to bo sworn ed by the Attorney-General to me. He stared, crouching

other evening; and he saw in, and all efforts ut securing. Czechs be planning that in any now, at the same rate of speed the qualified information seemed explain why the system of bramble bush, and remained staring way menaces Germany or her as the Manchukuo incident-to fruitless. friends? Germany can have no prevent their taking anything tlers, however, had witnessed a such a patent failure, he was under the bush, and when I peered

Certain of the set swearing in witnesses by burn while I called his name.

ing a sheet of yellow paper was opened but no sound came. more to fear from the Czechs but an apologetic attitude in the form of oath common amongst alleged to have laughed, and re- I could not see him. Man and than Italy had to fear from Far East.

Chinese pirates and gangstere, marked with evident amusement animal were finally severed. Ethiopia.

He Conjecture, it may be said, is that is, of cutting off the head that for one thing the procedure is doomed. He has already for- gotten the toste of rats. He hunts And now comes this business no argument. No, indeed. But of a cock before a sort of shrine was almost unheard of amongst rabbits. The half-impersonal skill the Manchukuoan frontier. a certain amount of it, mixed on which were arranged the in- the Chinese. Furthermore, if it of rat-killing has changed to the evitable concomitants of Chinese were to be valid, the paper must silent fury of full-power killing. le it possible that Germany with a little understanding of worship the scarlet ceremonin! bear the exact hour of the per- by civilisation.

That feeling is dulled, or transmuted, foresaw it? It seems incredi- the policies of the nations and candles and the sticks of frag- son's birth, his name in full, and A cat returned wild will pursue ble; but if we are to accept the the probable trend of their am- rant incense. This Was aug various minutiae which could young game birds, and it is the law argument that the press cam-bitions makes possible a fairly gested and actually tried for a only be socured with the fullest of the wild that it is a good life

while it Jasis, paign directed against the accurate prediction as to the time in the first Criminal Sea- co-operation of the witness, A sudden charge of shot Da, and

sions. At length,

remain however, which obviously under the exist-all that will Czechs is tho first step in a more manner of their progress. The serious movement, then it must Italians have conquered Ethio- when it was found out by bitter ing circumstances was a prac- Tommy, will be a woodland gatch

experience that event this com- tical impossibility.

of wild violets larger than the be accepted as a possibility that pia. The Spanish situation is pleated system of securing the

others; a pair of warm gloves for Questioned further as to how tractor driving; a plaintive cadence some such preoccupation for rapidly being liquidated.

The veracity of a witness's onth was the Chinese mandarina managed from the starlings in the trees above Russia was in prospect. For it Japanese have started a was of lacking in the desired results, it to secure impartial evidence, if the chalk quarry. has been Germany's consistent conquest in China, Germany was abolished, and another form no such oaths, as were tried in policy to wait upon propitious has seized Austria. Fasciam is almost as absurd adopted in its the Supreme Court were employ. circumstances before launching will watch for the place whierd

on the march; and a wise man stedd.

This was the burning of a nese yamons of the day depend

ed, Caldwell stated that the Chi- her several political adventures the boots of its armies next sheet of yellow paper about six ed on torture to extract truthful" of the last few years, And her may tread

| by eight inchids In alże In the

(Continued on Page 5.);

HE KIDDED HIS WAY OUT OF MYSTERY!

Clues that dis- appeared into thin air... bodies that wouldn't stay put!

The LADY

MORGUE

IN

THE

A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE

with

Preston FOSTER PATRICIA ELLIS - FRANK JENKS BARBARA PEPPER - THOMAS JACKSON

Screen Play by Erie Taylor and Robertson Whita Frogs the Crime Club novel by Jonathan Latiner Directed by Oils Carrett Produced by living Sterr

SHOWING TOMORROW?

ALHAMBRA

ACRIME CLUB PRODUCTION

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on the

And cern

SAW Tommy-Tommy the

by

His mouth

As I walked towards him he slid

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of Tommy

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