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BY T. PAUL GREGORY

RESIDENT of one month and twelve days Hongkong's past, who after being nominated to would undoubtedly the post.

have achieved a career of

Mr. John Day was born at eminence in the service of Milverton, Somerset, on Decem- son of John and Amelia Day of While sidewall tires by WIZ for the Colony, had not fate ber 9, 1818. He was the eldest Mr. Woodland House, Wellington, ruled otherwise, was

and received his John Day, barrister-at-law. Somerset,

at the Grammar He was greatly esteemed by education his colleagues at the Bar as, School at Ilminster, under the a man of the soundest instruction of the headmaster, the Rev. John Allen, M.A. Ho judgment, distinguished

was regarded as a good classical alike for legal acumen and scholar, and if his parents had gentlemanly feeling, and been better endowed with this consequently his appoint- world's goods, he would no doubt ment as Acting Attorney- have been sent either to Oxford or Cambridge. Circumstances, General in 1858 by the then however, decided that he should Governor, Sir John Bow- be articled to a firm of barristers, ring, was regarded as 3 Messrs. Norton and Chaplin, of After his period of most judicious choice. His London. term of office, however, was apprenticeship was completed, he was called to the Bar at the briefest on

Temple in the Middle record; for he died suddenly Michalemas Term, 1839.

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"You must remember, Madam, these pedigreed dogs won't beg- they'd rather atarve Arst,"

Gems From An

Old Jest-Book

THE dumpy little volume 1 selected Tersely Droll

nose.

rather than among

in

at from the "threepenny box"

By this it might be supposed that the secondhand bookseller's was to foul a condition that it was an the anoymous humorist did not offence both to the eye and to the agree that brevity is the soul of wit. Starts Fine Career

was printed in An assumption, however, that is not Moreover, diet without years of education

He was now at the age of 21, such small and execrable type that endorsed by his anthology, for its even with the aid of glasses ex-400 pages are full of terse drollery and encouragement,

which, in the main, has a modern

but which I believe is entire SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Going on to the main ment a fully qualified lawyer, and ac-aralaation was a laborious task.

appeal, But experience has taught me that item in the Chinese diet, the cordingly commenced the prac NOT IN SIGHT

Consider, in the light of obstacles to be overcome in mak- tice of his profession at Maiden- it is among such faded and betterly new to the present generationen The prospects of growing in ing the Colony self-sufficient in head, Berks, and later at Taun-exeserved and more expensive specl-politics, the retort of the celebrated

successful

profit when er the plors of Westminster Bridge, was the young barrister that mens, that one is more likely to find Lord Chesterfield when asked wheth-

both entertainment and

second-hand in

then in course of construction, werd this Colony sufficient alfalfa pork are realised as insuperable. ton, Somerset. So

For years, various well-inten-

one or wood, likely to be of stone was the reply,

"Stone, to be sure," wns grass to form the basis of a new,tioned people have experimented during the succeeding years he bargain-hunting

That was not wrong in this case economical and 'nutritious diet with the object of producing a became well-known throughout book-stores.

proved by this article. My find for we have too many wooden peers cross suitable for growing in the English Counties, and was: for the poorer Chinese popula-large herds in the New Terri- accorded the reputation of being was published by Joseph Smith,

same nobleman is credited "one of the best 103 High Holborn, London, in 1320, already at Westminster." tion has been briefly discussed tories. The late Lady Clara lo for his age

explann- ing quaint and cumbersome

"Wit and Win-amed Pepper, who informed him that he had purchased a very lively in the columns of this newspaper Tung and the Dairy Farm Com-legal minds" of the country. He and has on its title page the follow with n witty answer to

purpose:

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ws might be, he should endeavour "Ind Martin Luther done 50," "your the philosopher,

Throne."

And here is the Joke made on her death-bed by Swift's beloved Stella. To comfort the dying woman, her a clover-like plant of the bean former Governor here, was an profession there was already The whole arranged by an eminent

a surfeit of English barristers, family-has been successfully economist of some ability and over-crowded; for in addition to wit-cracker."

his physician told her:-"I hope we shall capable, and

soon get you up the hill again. grown here over a number of was also interested in the ques-

"learned extremely Bengalese baboos or

from

Bench the

"Thanks, doctor," she replied, "but years but the stumbling block to tion of raising pigs but he and there was the horde of native

that were lauded by all sections fear that before I reach the top its development as a human diet the then Colony Veterinary Sur-

on nccount I shall be out of breath.

Swift's wit, of which my authority scems to be the lack of suitable geon, Major W. J. E. Mackenzie, men" who acted as advisers to decisions

came to the conclusion that it the Indian litigants, so

relates several good stories, invarl- Here are two vate interest and personal pre-ably ind a sling in it. ground for raising large quanti- would cost far too much even opportunity for one who had of the community

A London practically non-

judice." The Government, too, examples:-Meeting ties; and secondly, the consider to approach the price of the im-been a successful English county of their being "unbiassed by pri-

existent. able care and semi-skilled treat-ported pigs. Over 450,000 pigs lawyer was

was well pleased at his conduct, coffee house a crooked gentleman Bowring deter who informed him that he had just and!

was ad- and Governor

from Bath, the author straight Hainan Kwanchowan,

di- Mr. Day, however,

avail himself of his of "Gulliver's Travels" retorted: CHATER ROAD,ment the crop constantly re-are brought in each year from

got terribly warp-. quires. A medical expert states

elsewhere for local consumption vised to try his chances further mined to

el the journey!" should un that the food has been approved and the trade is growing rather afield, and Hongkong was sug- further services, whenever a "You seem to have

opportunity

story which I should like declining despite than

thegested as the most likely sphere suitable for humans and contains valu-

to bring to the notice of present-day able vitamins. The same expert growth of three or four pig for his labours. His conversa- arise. This soon occurred, as a

and Mr. considers that if the idea was gerics in the New Territories tions with merchants and ship result of a quarrel between the dictators who desire to suppress free-

Thomas dom of speech. It concerns a adopted and supported by Gov. during the last two years; captains convinced him of the Governor

would

to make General. There had been con- William Whiston, the translator of

Josephus,

phus, with reference to Whiston's ernment, room could be made in Large scale piggeries

between

persecution theological opinions. for having aired his very the 300 square miles of granite depend on imported food, such advantages of settling here, and Chisolm Anstey, the Attorney-versation between George con

as bran, which could not be pro- hills and fertile valley in the duced here even if the capital the Colony his future home. siderable animosity New Territories for raising large and ground were available. It Shortly after his arrival in the these two individuals for some crops and, as the diet became is preferable to depend on the autumn of 1855, he was admitted time; hence it was not entirely The King, who

more cheap imported pig rather than to practice at the local Bar, and unexpected when Sir John an-advised him that however correct his popularised,

satisfactory clientele, suspension of the Attorney- ground could be devoted to on imported food for the local within a year or so had built up nounced on August 9, 1858 the few might be, he should e

Furthermore, even though he General from office, and the ap- answered of the pig, and the Chinese have other alfalfa at the expense

for preferring the It former. The imported pig is a was now only 38 years of age, he pointment of Mr. Day in his Majesty would not be occupying the cheaper grades of rice.

Sheridan's Wit would be a pity indeed to sug-rice seventy to eighty pound was nevertheless considered as stead.

The nomination of Mr. Day to

As might be expected, my ancient gest that alfalfa-or the equally animal which matures in eight the dopen or senior barrister in important food diet of spinach-months, lives hardily and cheap- the Colony, and his fund

masters exquisite

of humour as should eventually exclude rice as ly and cuts up into neat little ten common sense and remarkable this high office would assuredly

further series of promotions; based on verbal sallies made by such Brothers Smith but the honour and recognition

the Sheridan and the chief cereal of the New Ter-cent joints or sells entire for industry were soon to secure for have been a stepping stone to a anthology contains several anecdotes

ceremonial occasions for which him due recognition,

On January 2, 1856, the Gov-

intented ritories since at least one area pork is deroanded. The improv

Sheridon overheard an in the Fanling district is famed d cross which it was attempted ernment notified that "in conse- which were the reward of his authors of "Rejected Addresses.")

ress a who throughout Chind for the high to breed herb takes two months quence of the continued indis- endeavours were short-lived, in-

The spring was not very quality of this product. The longer to mature and is not so position of the Honourable Chief dead; for he fell victim to an compliment paid to a charmings ne-

died on September 21, 1868 at Una Hang district at Fanling convenient to market. As a Justice, the Governor had, under acute attack of dysentery and that she looked us blooming as the

final proof of how impossible it his hand and the seal of the

the Indy and said: "I madam, that the grew rice for the Imperial Court is for the Now Territories to Colony and in accordance with the early age of forty. His sud-in that year, so Sheridan

were as blooming as you." the community, and if the

spring were

foraco Here is a story about of-China for centuries before grow pigs for the Colony's needs section 5 of Ordinance No. 6 or den death was a great shock to would to God, the Itepublic. Nowadays. the it might be mentioned that the 1845, appointed Mr. John Day, obituary notices in the local farmers have no Court to supply: present local piggeries could barrister-at-law, to sit in the press are a fair criterion of the Smith, which seems equally appro- troduced, at social gathering, to an and sell their rice for export produce enough pork for a few place of the Chief Justice, and gentiments of the residents, priate to modern times. He was in in the high-class trade and aro days' normal consumption only hear and determine such guita

a very general feeling of pro- cool indifference: "Smith-I seem

fact, one to know your name, air. well content to buy, with half that they are too insignificant in as may be brought before him there must have been manifest affected Indy of tile, who said, with

numbers to be noticed by the under the Summary Jurisdiction found regret. In their proceeds sufficient low-importers at present; and if of the Supreme Court, on Friday, obituary- erkis in a most melan- must have seen you somewhere.e at the 4th January, and following choly manner:"......But it is I have often been there, I as grade imported rice for their serious competition were needs. Though the Now Terri-tempted, the importers could cut days until all such cases shall useless to speak good of one who sure you."

the "Happy

It was James Smith who called tories imports luxury trade rice, their prices nearly fifty per cent have been adjudicated and deter- has entered into

Valley. Rather, seeing how on a friend at his country house and, perceiving him running through the the supply throughout the and still make a profit while local mined."

Boon, in these latitudes, the grounds to meet him, said he was Colony is quite inadequate to piggeries have difficulty in mar- keting at the present price.

night comes in which no man sorry to see him so improvident.

"How do you mean?" asked the feed the population-constantly While conditions such as these

ean work, it would be well if we | increasing-without an enorm-exist and the population remains

all considered how mean, how other.

"I regret to see you running so fast ous quantity of imported rice. at a million or more, Hongkong

Although Mr. Day had pre- miserable, our potty strivings through your estate," was the an- Most countries aro 'alow to will always be reliant on import-

Next n story about James Quin, the actor-manager, who was Gor- change their habits without the ed foodstuffs and experimentaviously held himself aloof from for wealth, Influence, and post-swer. stimulus of a Dictator, and the such as the growing of alfalfa all colonial matters, and devoted tion are, and sought, moro

on a large scale, will have a his time and interests solely to simply, to live worthy lives rick's rival. An incompetent player

(Continued on Page 11.) Chinese in Hongkong could not scientific rather than a commer-the promotion of his own pro- the solo necessity of fearless having applied to him for an engage

fession, he now proved himself deaths?". be expected to take to any new cial value.-G. G..

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