When their Lordships took their seats at the Supreme Court on Friday morning, the members of the Bar remained stand ing while Mr. H. P. Wilkinson, Crown Advocate, addressed Sir Havilland de Sausmarez as follows May it please your Lordship. I have heard with great pleasure morning of the well-merited honour which His Majesty has conferred upon you. Speaking on behalf of- the Bar, and, I am sure of the whole. of Shanghai, have the honour to congratulate you. Sir Havilland, considered as a recdgnition of good work well done in Africa, Turkey, and Egypt, the honour which you have received is merely a well-deserved recognition of those services. However here in Shanghai we welcome this honour most heartily as showing that His Majesty's Government recognises the vital interest which it isto every British subject in the East, and to every person having dealings with them, that the dignity of this Court should be maintain ed. Since you have come, my Lord, we have recognised the great industry and ability with which you by dealt with the vast amount of work, both in Court and elsewhere, which must come before the head of this Court. Again, on behalf of the Bar and of the British community here and everyone in Shanghai I beg to congratulate you: Lordship, His Lordship replied—Mr. Crown Advocate and gentlemen of the Bar. I felt that one of the most prized results of the honour which His Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer upon me, is that the members of this community—particularly the members of the Bar—should rejoice with me on what has befallen me. I feel that to be the head of this Court is, in itself, a great honour. The fact that His Majesty has conferred a further honour upon me I feel is due to my position as head of this Court, which my experience shows mo is as important a Court as any out of His Majesty's dominions at home. I can hardly believe any Colonial Court, save perhaps those of our. semi-independent colonies, is of any more importance than this, and shall certainly strive, so long as Ihave the honour to. preside here, to all that may be required of the president of the Court and -in the interests of the administration of British justice in the Far East. I thank you, gentlemen. aqih® business of the dey then proceed-
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