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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Friday, DECEMBER 9, 1988.

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Boy

A Stormy

Petrel of

Hongkong's Inky Way

Hongkong, 1st July, 1857.

FEW men in the early his- Like other merchants in tho tory of Hongkong have Colony, Mr. Murrow was severe- been more distinguished by ly hit by the war of 1855-57 be- a self-sacrificing spirit than tween England and Chinn, that rugged Welshman, Mr. especially so, as his fleet of steamers had been tied up by Yorick Jones Murrow, the hostilities, although some whose sojourn in the Colony had been commandeered by the

| constituted 21 Murrovian Government and for a time ex- era, and an epoch in itself. tensively employed as despatch

boats. He was a pioneer in miny

However, the focal projects and his public him an opportunity to delve into

TRY THE 10 AND 12 H.P. spirit manifested itself in

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1938.

Death Wins

THE APPEAL by the Mayors

war

afforded

many enterprises; for he was a vocation for which he was to prove himself peculiarly fitted, not only A veteran mer- chant and far-seeing commercial viz: journalism, Early in 1857, Murrow became the entrepreneur but also a dannt. Mr.

proprietor and editor of the less journalist, whose news- paper, the Daily Press became the moulder of public opinion in the Orient,

MR..

AR. Yorick Jones Murrow was born in Wales in the year

Daily Press, a shipping periodi- cat which had been established by Mr. George M. Ryder, a Hongkong pharmacist, some few months before.

1817, and came out to China as THE Daily Press under its new a youth of twenty in order proprietor was inmediately

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to seek his fortune. His career transformed from a moribund of 119 cities to the govern- commenced modestly enough colonial news sheet into a living 11 junior clerk in the force. Mr. Murrow's peculiar Canton firm of Messrs. Jamie- genius now found full scope for son, How and Co., one of the development, and he took u foreign "factories," or hongs, prominent part in the history of which were at that day the the Colony. The directness of headquarters of all European his style were manifest from trade in the Celestial Empire.

ments of

the world to protest against the bombardment of open towns, especially in China, indicates once more the horror felt throughout the world at the repeated massacres of civilians by bombing planes. It is still going on, every day, in China and in Spain, but is reported only occasionally now because the public sense of horror has become so blunted that it no longer wants to read about any but major holocausts. Con- stant repetition of this mass

murder from the skies is apt to lesson the chances of concerted protest.

Young Murrow, however, proved that he was adapted by temperament to be a shrewd China trader und, within a few years, determined to go into business on his own account. So successful was he in this capa- city that for a period of nearly thirty years he exercised very great influence in the southern ports of China.

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UPON the cession of Hong- Mr. Murrow transferred his kong as a British Colony,

activities to the new port, and

PERSONALITIES

of old Hongkong

by

T. PAUL

GREGORY

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Cypr, 1236 by Culled Frutare Tratak, t

vehtey

u-ib

"Arbuckle always likes to wait anul see what the other fellow'a

going to bring out."

Is

Life

Cheap On Our Roads?

been occasions when

the

DRIVING to the I BELIEVE that there have danger of the public a charge of manslaughter has been serious offence in Hong- preferred against local drivers, kong?

have been inflicted when B

which makes one wonder, all the Unless my recollection of more whether there is any road regulations in the uniformity about charges or British Isles is sadly astray, penalities for certain specified it is no light matter to dis-offences. At times heavy fines obey the laws of the road-motorist has come to grief in and if disobedience results the early hours of the morning, in the death of a person, the far heavier than in some cases driver invariably faces a where wilful disregard of Regu- lations has resulted in death. charge of manslaughter.

The tragic toll of the roads Surely it is not to be presumed that our local law is a respecter has become a momentous ques of persons; insofar as traffic tion, and far-reaching legislation

offences are concerned. has been adopted in order to bring home to some motorists

At times I have sympathised

his "keen intelligence induced the very beginning. His in the grave consequences which with local doctors who have been him to establish, at his own risk, haustible

Vocabulary enabled just what he a daily postal service in the him to express first instance of fast native row wished to say and in the fewest boats of his own design, as possible words. Thus in making specially adapted to the service, his bow to the public he said: and afterwards by steamer, "The community of Hongkong which he also designed."

Colony

by JOHN BLUNT

It is a somewhat horrifying thought that the public and the

will follow should they fail to charged and heavily fined for ex- or for driving governments of the world have

co-operate with the authorities.ceeding the speed limit in a con-

This is as it should be, for the trolled area, become so used to incessant air

question is one of profound dangerously. The logical de raids upon defenceless civilians

seriousness. It is surely high fence that minutes lost on the that the only possibility of even

would (doubtless) be startled time that Hongkong came into a protest is when "neutrals" are Mr. Murrow was, inoreover, yesterday at the altered form line with other countries in this! included among the victims, the pioneer in the Chinese pas- and increased dimensions of the connection, especially when it is senger traffic between the Daily Press. In the course of commonly believed that many of Whether or not "neutral" lives

and San

Francisco, nine months the bantling had our Laws and Ordinances are: are lost, it is surely to the in-which singularly enough led to outgrown its clothes. Its stupid based upon those in force at

new suit,Home. terest of all civilised nations to a wholesale emigration of Chi- parents procured a bring the atrocity of india- nese to America, a factor which which to their bewilderment has as his admirera stated "did more proved much too small for its criminate

Modesty aerial bombardment than all other forces combined gigantic limbs.

to free the Chinese people from pears to be their habitual fail- the hereditary shackles of exclu- ing, but it is competent for them siveness, in which many cen- to plead inexperience as an ex- turies of 'custom' had previously cuse, as this is the first child enthralled them."

they have had to apparel. trust that our manners will im- prove with our age. We hope

to an end. It is scarcely less to the interest of the combatants making the raids, who merely cement the solidarity of their opponents.

Return To Sender

THERE IS NO romance about a postal administration.

ous

ap-

We

that Sir for having slated John Bowring extended undue preference to Messrs. Jardine,

Matheson & Co., and the journey, might have meant the China Mail) to the counting tremendous difference between room he previously occupied life and death to a sick person, at the Old Central Police has sounded thoroughly justified. Station.

On thinking over the matter, however, I have come to the con- clusion that in the absence of any particular form of identi- fication or signal (which I think

Y. J. Murrow Victoria Jail, 16th Oct. 1858.

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IN connection with his promo- that when we shall no longer be tion of Chinese emigration regarded as interlopers, our con- to California, he carried on vari- temporaries will hesitate to con- other commercial enter- temn our advice as valueless, priscs, one of them being an- and condescend to pursue that That is why large quantities nounced to the Hongkong public course which has contributed to PERHAPS the two most im- all doctors should be permitted

in the following advertisement, our signal success," of Christmas cards and calen- which appeared in the local ders addressed to Hongkong re-press during the summer and sidents are going back to the autumn of the year 1857. senders. With the threat of court proceedings looming in the background, the latter will be asked to pay double tax for their ignorance of the fact that, under the all-up air mail scheme introduced this year, the rate for sealed packets is a penny halfpenny per half ounce and not, ag before. per ounce.

If we were one of the Powers- that-Be, we would feel inclined to say: "Well, we made a good fat profit out of stamps last year. Let's forget the surtax and give the poor devils their Christmas greetings." Tail-Twisters, Boware!

portant services which Mr. to use) a doctor is just an ordi- Murrow rendered to the Colony nary motorist, and must there- were the daring expose in the fore obey the laws of the road. columns of the Daily Press of It would be poor consolation to I was inevitable that the in-the greatest blights of the time me if my child were killed just NOTICE

dependence of Mr. Murrow's-the Macao coolie slave trade because a doctor was speeding The undersigned has this opinions should speedily earn and the piracy which flourished to save the life of another's day commenced business as a him 23 lasting reputation under alleged official connivance child. Ship, Produce and Insurance as the "stormy petrel" of in the Colony itself.

Like Broker, and Adjuster of Aver- local

Mr. His politics.

retirement from the the 'sixties William Tarrant, the editor of Colony in ages.

Office, Queen's Road the Friend of China, he was marked by the presentation of OF COURSE, there is a very, Second door West from Gra- soon accused of libel, and his many public addresses and other ham Street,

Y. J. Murrow

art

WAD

that

great difference between the trial for this offence was one of evidences of the high esteem in unavoidable and the avoidable the causes celebres of that day. which he was held. The Parsee accident. Hongkong is a parti- trying place for His conviction resulted in his Community, among others, pre-cularly being sentenced to prison for six sented him with a magnificent motorists, for the reason jected. It is only a beginning. months for publishing an article set of silver plate suitably the Chinese masses show a total road conaciousness. Battleshipa will be part of a regarding the then Governor, inscribed as a mark of their ap- lack of new squadron to be based in the Sir John Bowring, and being preciation of his long and Many of them meet their death

las a consequence, ordered to pay a fine of £100, eminent public service. Pacific. Great surprises.

No blame whatsoever can bo He, however, continued to The news of his passing at his promised when the naval estim-edit his paper while in prison. residence, Alphington House, attributed to the driver when he jates for 1940 are introduced in The notice of his release was Five Oaks, Jeracy, on March 12, is obeying traffic regulations, if the Commons

noxt Friday. a striking instance of his spirit. 1884 was received with much a pedestrian suddenly rushes in Australia, too, will contribute It reads as follows:

regret in the Colony where he front of his radiator, had devoted so many years of There is however, a poticeable £60,000,000 as her share of Em-

NOTICE OF REMOVAL his life to useful service to the disregard for traffic regulations pire re-armament,

The undersigned has moved public. Hongkong, in short, had in general, especially with re- his office from Victoria Jall, lost a man who had made one gard to lorries and buses. The (where he has been incarce of the most interesting chapters restriction of 16 M.P.HL painted rated for the past six months'in its colourful history.

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