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HON. PAUL

PAUL IVY STERLING

First Attorney-General Of Hongkong

By T. PAUL GREGORY

was

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

and the

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

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

mille bill."

CATS THAT GO WILD DON'T LAST LONG

whiskers long, its eyes were yellow nettles. its face was broad. Its starlings in the trees over the chalk

vanished.

the

Initiative.

to take

TOW cone it wild?

We

is part of their com-

nu kutiger

even

ut

to secure an excellent education, whole Colony turned out and he graduated at Trinity Col- masse to witness the seating of lege, Dublin, and, subsequently the dignitaries on the Bench. becoming interested in the study To the Chinese inhabitants, too, of the law, he entered King's the event was a picturesque one|WALKING up the steep field-edge smaller cats remain; the third, our In for that purpose. He was and the sight of the Chief to Hanghigh Wood, I saw a large young friend Tommy-Tommy, has called to the Irish Bar during Justice, Mr. Hulme, the At-cat sitting at the edge of the trees.nlready gone.

All that is left of Tommy-Tommy It saw me a moment afterwards; (as the children named him) is his the full Bar in their robes and gave a swift, crouching stare; turned plaintive going-wild mecow. This Trouble appears to be in the the Michaelmas Term in 1829, torney-General, Mr. Sterling and Immediately I stood still.

and shortly afterwards pro

belly-low; WOM gone Hmong the sad little cry was imitated by the making on two frontiers, and creded to London, where he wigs was an impressive sight.

Although, the Court started undertook a course of further there may or may not be some

quarry, and now He was off with favourable aplomb, with intense, concentrated scrutiny. munal spring song.

But Tommy-Tommy connection between them. Any study at Gray's Inn.

now a full-fledged barrister so there was still a great deal to was wild.

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

his uttering

reproachfül of the old system of imperial his twenty-sixth to his thirty- cade before the legal administra-periods of relaxation, when its eyes twitch,

dream, or unfocus from the where--have-you-been mew, before movements of life about

It. The turning over on his head and roll- tacties-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 effi- 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 is always in kittenhood by old Jimmy, who patent be displays to-day. In fact, al-lived on the sharp edges of sight and first brought Tommy-Tommy to be a

rat-catcher in the corn barn. may suspect that the German great that it was

sound. WEB

Had the cat been tame, It would

TOMMY-TOMMY was n shy. ΤΟΝ press talk of Czecho-Slovakian would come to the notice of the though the Chief Justice

Home Government who were apparently the right man for his have stared at me, probably sitting

swift, fleeing young cat military activity und

the then casting about for eminent position, the man chosen for the crouched, but would have re- when first I saw him. He and an

Had it been half-wild, it would up, Japanese reports of an invasion legal talent to go to the Far East post of Attorney-General soon rozen" until I 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- But 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 gronary, hay- it barn, cornbarn, stables, in a regular luck the pioneer me The Soviet are inter-related. Hongkong.

seemed

round. First they caught mice; then spirit necessary to persevere in

small rats, which they killed and ate has long been an accepted rule

Great Things Expected a newly opened Colony, and the

I think I can truly imagine quickly. of the game of imperial con-

When environment

came to live in the vastly different Whether Mr. Sterling's ap

Hs history. There are many cats in

Kranary, last autumn, Tommy- quest to start the actual campointment as Attorney-General prevailing in the East, proved English woods returned to wildness.

Indeed, there are two generations Tommy used to visit us, stinking 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 see upon the intended victim, ac-

on my farm now. the decision of Judge John obstacle.

like a shadow at the slightest quick Waller Hulme, the newly Glaring Inefficiency

At the moment, they are there cording to authorities on this

catch rats. At least, two of the movement nominated Chief Justice, we

After a week he became used to Most of those early Criminal

buman human

And Garratt, in his "Mus-do not know, but at least subject.

movements, old Sessions in the

were Colony do know solini's Roman Empire", recalls we

from the

although lic was Hable at any chronicles of Hongkong that marked by examples of glaring Court room by the witness be-squatted on the mat by the stove:

in. On this paper mo

moment to run away. the classic example of Walwal

things great

were expected inefficiency, and it was a wonder ing sworn

After another week he was sleek 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 at all. anxiously administered

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

morning he brought young rats and were there was the difficulty of secur the date, the name of the wit-night, although always during the by rivals in the imperial field awaited, and the public

and ness, etc. The Chinese, how-laid them at my feet. I am sure this confident that he would further ing qualified interpreters, 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 at Christmas we left Negus. Probably he had already earned at Home. an ever rising series of predica by this means could scarcely re-

for the coltages, which that the evidence were more or The reception afforded him on ments which would impair the strain their mirth, and it was

less (chiefly less) is not wrong. The whole

Tommy-Tommy of even a Solon, soon found

was left his arrival was noteworthy, and deliberations of Italy's campaign was a series a few days afterwards he was Most of this

elicited under such circumstan-ready. was due to the

behind to kill the rats. He waited of well-thought-out diplomatic duly gazetted as a member of awkward situation arising from ces was invariably as devoid of for us, day after day, by the closed truth as if the witness had not 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 sus- then Governor, Sir Francis nesses in the Court. The Chi- of affairs went on for a number casily.

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

ignorant of English procedure, competent interpreter was hired alleyites, the starlings, ever on the premeditated evil intended

and there were many ludicrous at a salary of £150 per annum. listen for new sounds and against 2 harmless state. statesmen have admitted this to attempts to adopt some

(Hike the commercial dance songs- ex- This was Mr. Caldwell, who was harmless, in spite of the allega-be the case.

pedient which would conform soon to figure extensively in the ters, they have little music of their tion that it still was a strong- There is another possibility, to native customs. Every one history of the Colony at this own, beyond clucking or percussive

· plaintive, nostal- hold of slavery. There may be of course; that Japan, made seems to have had a different period.

gic mow which we will hear long a parallel in the present German aware of "something stirring" scenes in the Court when the man then in the Colony who like the old wild cat I saw for an

opinion, and there were unseemly He was certainly the only after Tommy-Tommy is dead.

For he is doomed. He will grow outery against Czecho-Slovakian on the Czecho-German border Jary would disagree with the actually knew the Chinese men- instant on the edge of Hanghigh 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 there seems little foundation for Russians, hoping for their con- to be followed. The Chinese

as well as the people complete shyness of the wild. gunge at the Czech situation-themselves gave no hint as to themselves. When he was ask-

SAW Tommy-Tommy the alber evening; and he saw any event what could the which may very easily develop in, and all efforts at securing explain why the system of bramble brush, and remained starts

how they wanted to be sworn ed by the Attorney-General to me. He stared,

crouching by Czechs be planning that in any now at the same rate of speed the qualified information seemed sweating in witnesses by burn-while I called his name. His mouth. way menaces Germany or her as the Manchukuo incident-to fruitless.

Certain of the set- ing a sheet of yellow paperwopened but no sound cume. 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 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 gangsters, marked with evident amusement animal were finally severed. Ethiopia.

Conjecture, it may be said, is that is, of cutting off the head that for one thing the procedure gotten the taste of Fals. Ho hunts

He is doomed. He has already for 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 sk!!

to the the Manchukuoan frontier. certain amount of it, mixed on which were arranged the in- the Chinese., Furthermore, if it of rat-killing has changed

evitable concomitants of Chinese were to be valid, the paper must silent fury of full-power killing. That feeling in 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 blo; but if we are to accept the the probable trend of their am- rant incense. This was aug various minutiue which could young game birds, and it is the law argument that the press cambitions makes possible a fairly geated and actually tried for a only be secured with the fullest of the wlid that it is a good life

while it lasts. paign directed against the accurate prediction as to the time in the first Criminal Ses- co-operation of the witness, A sudden charge of shot

length, however, which obviously under the exist-all that will remain of Tommy- Czechs is the first step in a more manner of their progress. The signs. At 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 patch

experience that even this com- tical impossibility,

of wild violets larger than be accepted as a possibility that pia. The Spanish situation is plicated system of securing the Questioned further as to how tractor driving; a plaintive cadence others; a pair of warm gloves for some such preoccupation for rapidly being liquidated.

The veracity of a witness's oath was the Chinese mandarins managed from the starlings in the trees above Russia was in prospect. For it Japanese have started a war 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 auch oaths as were tried in policy to wait upon propitious has solzed Austria. Fascism is almost as absurd adopted in its the Supreme Court were employ-

on the march; and a wise man stead. circumstances before launching will watch for the place where

ed. Caldwell stated that the Chi- This was the burning of a her several political adventures the boots of its armies next sheet of yellow paper about six ed on torture to extract truthful noso yamens of the day depend-

of the last few years. And her may tread...

by eight inches in alze in the

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the German excitement.

in

on

And

cern

letarian,

oil-hued

noises), learned the

treetop tinpan

nolags

As I walked towards him he slid

Is it possible that Germany with a little understanding of worship the scarlet ceremonial bear the exact hour of the per- by civilisation and wild will pursue

and

the

Henry

Williamson