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Stormy Petrel of Hongkong's Way

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FEW men in the early his- Hongkong, 1st July, 1857.

tory of Hongkong have like other merchants in the been more distinguished by ly hit by the war of 1855-'57 be- Colony, Mr. Murrow was severe- a self-sacrificing spirit than tween England and. China, that rugged Welshman, Mr. capocially so, as his fleet of Yorick

Jones Murrow, steamers had been tied up by the hostilities, although some whose sojourn in the Colony had been commandeered by the constituted 3 Murrovian Government and for a time ex- era, and an epoch in itself. tensively employed as despatch

He was a

boats. pioneer in many local projects and his public him an opportunity to delve into

However, the

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

many enterprises; for he was a vocation for which he was to not only a veteran

prove himself peculiarly fitted, chant and far-seeing commercial viz: journalism. Early in 1857, entrepreneur but also a daunt- Mr.

became the less journalist, whose news proprietor and editor of the paper, the Daily Press became Daily Press, a shipping periodi- the moulder of public opinion in cal which had been established the Orient,

by Mr. George M. Ryder, a Hongkong pharmacist, some fow months before.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1938.

Death Wins

mor-

Murrow

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MR, Yorick Jones Murrow was born in Wales in the year 1817, and came out to China as THE Daily Press under it's now a youth of twenty in order THE APPEAL by the Mayors to seek his fortune. His career transformed from a moribund proprietor was immediately of 119 cities to the govern

commenced modestly enough colonial news sheet into a living ments of the world to protest Canton frm of Messrs. Jamie- genius now found full scope for 08 4 junior clerk in the force. Mr. Murrow's peculiar against the bombardment of son, How and Co., one of the development, and he took a open towns, especially in China, foreign "factories," or hongs, prominent part in the history of indicates once more the horror which were at that day the the Colony. The directness of headquarters of all European his style were manifest from felt throughout the world at the trade in the Celestial Empir 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 lessen the chances of concerted protest.

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

PON the cession of Hong- kong as a British Colony, Mr. Murrow transferred his activities to the new port, and

PERSONALITIES

of old Hongkong by

T. PAUL GREGORY

vocabulary

GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

MOTORS

Copt, 1938 ký United Feature Syndrals, fas

"Arbuckle always likes to wait and see what the other fellow's going to bring out.”

Is Life

Cheap

On

Our Roads?

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

which makes one wonder all the Unless my recollection of more whether there la 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.

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

have been inflicted when

by JOHN BLUNT

t

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

offences are concerned. has been adopted in order to

At times I have sympathised. It is a somewhat horrifying his "keen intelligence induced the very beginning. His inex-bring home to some motorists thought that the public and the him to establish, at his own risk, haustible

enabled the grave consequences which with local doctors who have been a daily postal service in the him to express just what he will follow should they fail to charged and heavily fined for ex- governments of the world have first instance of fast native row wished to say and in the fewest co-operate with the authorities, eceding the speed limit in a con- become so used to incessant air boats of his own design, as possible words. Thus in making This is as it should be, for the trolled area; or for driving raids upon defenceless civilians specially adapted to the service, hla bow to the public he said: question is one of profound dangerously. The logical de that the only possibility of even which he also designed."

and afterwards by steamer, "The community of Hongkong seriousness. It is surely high fence that minutes lost on the would (doubtless) be startled time that Hongkong came into a protest is when "neutrals" are Mr. Murrow was, moreover, 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 Whether or not "neutral" lives senger traffic between the Daily Press. In the course of commonly believed that many of Colony and San Francisco, nine months the buntling 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 ht terest of all civilised nations to a wholesale emigration of Chi- parents procured a new suit,Home. bring the atrocity of indis- nese to America, a factor which which to their bewilderment has as his admirers stated "did more proved much too small for its criminate aerial bombardment :

than all other forces combined gigantic limbs. Modesty ap- to an end. It is scarcely leas to to free the Chinese people from pears to be their habitual fail- the interest of the combatants the hereditary shackles of exclu- ing, but it is competent for them siveness, in which many cen- to plead inexperience as an ex- making the raids, who merely turies of 'custom' had previously cuse, as this is the first child cement the solidarity of their enthralled them."

they have had to apparel. We trust that our manners will im- opponents.

prove with our age. We hope Return To Sender

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- THERE IS NO romance about

other commercial enter temn our advice as valueless, a postal administration. prises, 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 of Christmas cards and calen-which appeared in the loca!

in the following advertisement, our signal success."

dars 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 mall scheme Introduced this year, the rato for sealed packets is a penny halfpenny per half ounce and not, as before per ounce.

oug

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Matheson & Co., and the journey, might have meant the China Mall) 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.

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

On thinking over the matter, however, I have come to the con- clusion that in the absence of any particular form of identi- fleation or signal (which I think PERILAPS the two most im- all doctors should be permitted 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 Proes of It would be poor consolation to IT was inevitable that the in- the greatest blights of the time me if my child were killed just dependence of Mr. Murrow's the Macao coolie slave trade because a doctor was speeding The undersigned has this opinions should speedily anra and the piracy which flourished to save

the life of another's: day commenced business us a him Д lasting reputation under alleged official connivancal child. Ship, Produce and Insurance as the "stormy petrel" of in the Colony itself. Broker, and Adjuster of Aver- local. ages.

NOTICE

Y. J. Murrow

aro

politics. Like Mr. His retirement from tho William Tarrant, the editor of Colony in the 'sixties Was

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as a consequence.

Offcc, 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

great difference between the ham Street,

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 Parace accident. Hongkong is a parti His conviction resulted in his Community, among others, pre- cularly trying place for being sentenced to prison for six sented him with a magnificent motorists, for the reason that jected. It is only a beginning, months for publishing an article set of silver plate suitably the Chinese masses show a total.

lack of road If we were one of the Powers- Battleshipe will be part of a regarding the then Governor, Inscribed as a mark of their ap

consciousness. · that-Be, we would feel inclined new aquadron to be based in the Sir John Bowring, and being preciation of his long and Many of them meet their death.

ordered to pay a fine of £100. eminent public service. to say: "Well, we made a good Pacific. Great surprises

He, however; continued to The news of his passing at his | No blame whatsoever can be- fat profit out of stamps last promised when the naval estim- edit his paper while in prison. residence, Alphington House, attributed to the driver when he

ates for, 1940 aro introduced In year. Let's forgot the surtax the Commons next Friday, a striking instance of his spirit. 1884 was received with much a pedestrian suddenly rushes in The notice of his release was Five Oaks, Jersey, on March 12, la obeying traffic regulations, if and give the poor devils their Australia, too, will contribute It reads as follows:

regret in the Colony where he front of his radiator. Christmas greetings."

| £60,000,000 as her share of Em-

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NOTICE OF REMOVAL

had devoted so many years' of 'There is however, a noticeable his life to useful service to the disregard for traffic regulations: The undersigned has moved publle. Hongkong, in short, had in general, especially with re- his office from Victoria" Tall, lost a man who had made one gard to lorries and-bases,... Tan (where he has been incares of the most interesting chapters restriction of 15 M.P.EL painted rated for the past six months'in its colourful, history,

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