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Personalities Of Old Hongkong

SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON

Popular Governor Of The Colony

C.M.G. Like

By T. Paul Gregory

numing

HIS FIRST GOVERNORSHIP POPULAR figure in

His editing of the report of the history of the Colony during the last the Colonies represented there was considered a remarkably decade of the nineteenth thorough piece of work, and was century was that of the doubtless directly instrumental Governor, Sir William Ro- in influencing the Secretary of for the Colonies in Hongkong Hotel binson, G.C.M.G., K.C.M.G., State

him Governor of his prede the Bahamas

in 1874. He Garage

cessor, Sir William Des continued in this post until 1881, Voeux, his career. in and so capable did his adminis- Stubbs Rd. Hongkong was

not noted tration prove that in 1877, he perhaps for brilliant accom- received the thanks of the Gov- and was further plishments, but it can rank ernment

and honoured by Queen Victoria with honourable un

a Commandery of the Order of eficient one; for he was St. Michael and St. George. most capable administrator Henceforth, has promotion was and one who always endea- rapid, and comprised in succes- voured to uphold the high sion such important posts as traditions of the colonial [service.

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Degi, 1834 by Voted Pasture Kyndičkis, Ime.

"I understand Snadgrass is stone broke!-He hasn't a penny in his wife's name!"

The man

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AWAY FROM IT ALL?

TWO

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WALTER GREENWOOD

Governor of the Windward

women paused out- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1938.

islands, 1880-1885, during which

side the cottage and time he was the recipient of a looked back at the land-locked Sir William Robinson LAW OF FORCE:

was K.C.M.G. from the Queen. In harbour and the village. It was born in England in the year 1885, he was transferred to evening, and the wind had died FORCE OF LAW

smoke 1836. He was the son of the Trinidad where he remained as away. Silvery Rey, J. Banks Robinson, and like its Governor until 1891, in which straight as. a ruler from the "Civilisation has always tried [the majority of sons of the Eng year he had conferred upon him chimneys and cast a pearly to bind men's hands and arms lish clergy was favoured in what is justly regarded as one sheen over all the white cottages. securing an excellent education, of the "plums" of the Colonial with law. At certain stages of lie started his career in Her Service-the Governorship of garden of this cottage is a nar-

At the foot of the terraced had thought "all people were beautiful and had happy-looking face." development in every State or Majesty's civil service at the Hongkong.

row road, then a low wall guard-

But what of the lives of the Empire there has been a time early age of eighteen, his first Sir William arrived in the ing the rocks which descend to of reckless and sometimes appointment being that of a Colony to assume his new ap-the cove. Occasionally the sea people of this Cornish village? clerk in the Colonial Office. In pointment on December 10, 1891, waters the garden's mosses with Are they ideal? No human's

They know the meaning of

than worse futile labour. Sometimes, after

unemployment-

night's toil on the face of the waters, they return with a catch for which there is no market; and they stand watching-the- gulls glut themselves."

heroic single-handed rule against fact, it was in this branch of the and the occasion was fittingly its spray.

life is ideal. It is, as you may

The menfolk here live under lawlessness; and eventually the service that he was later to dis- observed with all the pomp and have guessed, a lovely place in

an arduous and declining trade. sane and balanced citizen has tinguish himself. By the time ceremony that is characteristic which to live.

he was twenty-two he had risen of similar events in colonial-his-

They are honest, simple folk The two women were leaning who have pedigrees as long as come to the aid of the man who to be a third class clerk and sub- tory. The inauguration went off against the wall, looking at the any to be found in Burke or first tried to discipline a rawsequently served fis private without a hitch, and the Colony pretty picture of the village and

Debrett. They are men who and dangerous community. It secretary to Mr. Herman Meri- settled down to the rule of the sunlight glinting on the was fifty years ago that the valo and Lord! Blachford. So Governor, whose administration water in the harbour. One of can trace their ancestors back favourably regarded were his was to be a most happy augury them exclaimed with pleasure at that: men who surprise one by to the Armada, and long before gunman ruled the western secretarial attainments that he of the growing wealth and power the sight. Her companion re-the extent of their travelling, plains of the United States, was appointed in April 1861 lo of the community. What was plied grudgingly: King Colt--as the pioneers

act as private secretary to the more, however, his seven years "M-m-m-m, yes, it's very nice. Rt. Honourable Edward Card- in office were typical of the era; All right to stay here for a day were fond of quoting-was the well, and afterwards in 1867 to for Hongkong in the nineties but I wouldn't like to live here. judge and jury on the frontiers, sit as a representative of the was the placid little Colony Why," she went on, amazed, And so the bully and the bad-Colonial Qffice on the East Afri. which seemed to have entirely "there's no cinemal"

can Slave Trade Commission outgrown its reputation for tur-It was not difficult to see that man, armed with his twin Colt So thorough and painstaking did bulence and lawlessness which this second woman was quite six-shooters, sometimes ruled he carry through the arduous made it notorious throughout lost here. Her remark WRB where there were no laws to duties of this appointment that the civilised world less than characteristic of one of the Chater Road. curb him, or where there were Principal Clerk...

nominated forty years before. Lest the penalties of having been brought

reader form the opinion that up in a town where, with enter-are we of the city, nor do they no guardians of the law suf-

envy us our diversions. When He was now thirty-six years of Hongkong was idyllic let him be tainment provided for us, we are their work is done they for- ficiently strong to challenge him, age, and had already spent some informed that the Colony was apt to lose the art of entertain-gather at their favourite spot at That state of affairs did not hold eighteen years in the service of "ot without its problems or sen- ing ourselves.

the harbour and yarn in the open for long, any more than it did in the Crown. He had proved him

Even worse, We can 80 air. any other progressive country.

self in every appointment, and

easily lose the appreciation of They have a pleasant com- The law came, with gun-fighters was regarded as one of the most

nature, we can so easily become munal life impossible in a city. alienated from it and feel "lost" On Sundays they go to their promising men in the service,

if we are alone. from which this

I visualised the sort of place

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PROGRAMME

1. Fingal's Cave. Ouverture. Mendelsohn.

2. Serenade

3. Schelden and elden.

4. Palliasse. Selection

5. My Son, Ballad

8. Ivana Volga

7. Un Peu d'Amour

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Waltz...Fetras. .Leoncavallo.

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the calm of the community. sational events which disturbed

"RACKET-DUSTER"

* Honest, Simple Folk

They are not cursed with that nerve-strained restlessness 1.8

love of God,"

of its own, men like wild Bill and hence, it is not to be during the Governorship of Sir One of these which occurred Hickock, Pat Garrett and Bill wondered at that the very next William Robinson was the great

ly, an old retired fisherman, un- small chapel, where, occasional- Tilghman, heroes of America's year, he was named to serve as Gambling House Scandal which come. I remembered my own putation, gives the sermon and woman had educated, a lay preacher of re- new West. I{ was a rute of Special Commissioner for the uncovered such these iron-nerved guardians of Colonial Office at the Vienna amount of evidence regarding fortnight: crowded streets, irri- the dawn, with the mist lying a formidable visit to London the previous talks of " ...coming home in the law never to argue with a Exhibition.

the corruption and graft alleged table pedestriana, walls every low on the sea and hiding the to be rampant in certain quar-where, and noisy vehicles fouling land. Then it rises and hangs It was a harsh sort of code, but undefended frontiers, "The les-in official circles that it was of their exhausts.

tters in Hongkong that it was felt the stifling air with the stench above, on the hill tops, like the it was essential for the restora-son we must learn is that for the high time for a grand clean-up. tion of peace and security in unification of our people nothing Sir William. proved himself terrorised communities.

Instead of astrology the local bellef is in fairies and pixies. trac "racket-buster" and in the It is unpleasantly true, it except

power and Criminal Sessions of June 1897, seems, that the same practical, strength is at our disposal. No the trial of a police officer for

IT was from this that the Now and again you will hear. woman had escaped to very reluctantly told, stories of cold-blooded system is required conferences or negotiations could receiving bribes was the signal spend a holiday touring the villagers who were "pixic-led”. broader sense to-day. give us what you have given for an extensive "shake-up" and Cornish coast. But from her by fairies while crossing a mea- Whatever interpretation' is ¡UB."

In other words, it seems, several European inspectors and remark I guessed that, so far dow in the dark; of being tempt- placed upon the words of Ger Hitler has frankly chosen arms detectives were summarily dis- as she was concerned, the es-ed from the path, then walking · many's all-powerful Fuehrer, he us against arbitration in the missed. The cleaning-up of cor-cape would be when she re-round and round the mendow follow the hedge yet being un- has stated unequivocally that settlement of disputes and the gambling racket was highly ap

ruption in, connection with the turned to the city. the might of the nation he rules enforcing of what he considers plauded by the community and dwellers to fly off into a romantic charm was spoken and the spell. It is so very easy for us city able to find the gate-until the will be used to force Czecho-Germany's rights. He has step- Sir William's departure for day-dream of escape from the was broken. Slovakia to her knees, to compel ped back fifty years to the days Home on February 1, 1898 was city to the country. Everybody: Petrified With Fear her people to accept the terms of the western American pioneer regarded with real regret. The suppose, at some time or

in

A

of settlement demanded by the who marked his range boun-usual addresses and compliments other, cherishes the secret hope

NOW and again a souTM- Sudetens and their blood-rela-daries where he willed, and de- were presented to him, and the of a cottage "away from it all."

westerly gale puta on tions within the Reich. The al fonded them with gun-fighting European community expressed The tragedy is it seema, that a show. A red, forge-like glare

its sentiments in well-chosen most of It is noth-cowboys, His speech to his words delivered by the Chief capacity to be "away from it the horizon, the gulla wheeling us have lost the in the sky, sullen fmutterings on ternative is terrible. ing less than war: and such a cohorts at Nuremberg, whatever Justice, Sir John W. Carrington. all" for any length of time. war as the feeblest imagination else it may be, is no very im-

and calling uneasily. The sea The Governorship of Hong- Which of us, then, is living, as still as a lako, and the long must shudder to contemplate. pressive evidence in support of kong was Sir William's last offi- the real life, the countryman, grasses and bushes on the cliffs. There is something alarmingly the Fuehrer's oft-repeated claim clal" appointment, and he spent or the townsman who is under standing motionless, like things significant in Hitler's words to that peace is the foundation-his remaining years in well the daily obligation of catching petrified with fear. his troops at Nuremberg. stone of German policy.

earned retirement at his home at the same bus or tram every Tho Arat puff of wind marks Was speaking of the At the moment there is noth-No. 28, Evelyn Mansions, Lon- morning, performing the same the sea as though a fast-moving founding of the Greater Ger- ing very potent in the fashion don, S.W., where he passed away routine job in the same condi-invisible hand has scattered sand many and the

facts of a law enforcement body in on December 1, 1912, aged 76 tions, then, twice a week, in- on its surface. Cloud has come. two

dulging in the only relief avail-from nowhere, and white horses which made it possible: the International affairs; but there is

The Colony in which ha serable, the cinema? establishment of what he terms the nucleus of disciplinary ved na Governor has most ap-

begin to ride towards the land: Recently a town girl, blind gulls are bleached against the a real German community by the force. And there still exists the propriately chosen to perpetuate from birth, regained her sight. dirty, darkening sky, then the annexation of. Austria, and the machinery of Geneva and The his sojourn in the naming of She is reported to have expressed great winds rage and terrifie THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. founding of a real German Army Hague, which only lacks for do that well-known thoroughfare great disappointment with the seas hurl thomsolves with:

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