Judge of H. M. Supreme Court Congratulated by the Legal Profession When Sir Skinner Turner tock his seat in the Supreme Court last Friday he received the cordial congratulations of members of the British Bar upon his knighthood. There were present: Mr. H. P. Wilkinson (Crown Advocate), Mr. 7 Browett, Mr. Duncan McNeill, Mr. J. H. Teesdale, Mr. R. N. Macleod, Mr. A. G. Mossop; Mr. G. H. Wright, Mr. R. BE. 8. Gregson, Mr. S. H. McKean, Mr.A. C. Holborow, Mr. J, E. Salmon, Mr. K. E. Newman, Mr. P. W. Goldring, Mr. R. G. MacDonald, Mr. A. M. Preston, Mr. M. B. Brown, Mr. Tycho Wing, Mr. N. H. Langley-Smith, Mr. A. E. Seddon, Mr. Mancel Reece, Mr. J. G. Priestwood and Mr, MacDonnell.
Addressing his Lordship, the Crown Advocate said: "Before we proceed with the business before the Court this morning, I should like on behalf of the Bar to congratulate your Lordship on the deserved and fitting honour which His Majesty the King has bestowed upon you. How pleased all nationalities are is shown by the happy references to yourself and Lady Turner in the press here and elsewhere in China. On behalf of our Bar—and I am authorized to add, on behalf of the representatives of other nationalities who by courtesy practise in this court—I tender to' you our respectful congratulations. We congratulate ourselves also that the Judge of this Court, the head of our profession in China, has been knighted, We trust you will long continue to preside over His Majesty's Supreme Court -in China with that efficiency and patient dignity which marks you. Our Mr. H. Browett said: "As senior member of this Bar, I should like! to say that I have practised before! four Judges, Mr. Hannen, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Bourne and Mr. do; Sausmarez, all of whom have re ceived the dignity of Knighthood. T am led to the conclusion that for much more than_a generation the occupants of the Bench in this Court} bec: have maintained the traditions established by a long and distinguished succession of English judges. We respectfully congratulate your Lordship upon this dignity, following such excellent His Lordship in reply said: "Mr. Crown Advocate, Mr. Browett and all of you, I thank you mest sincerely and most warmly for all you have said, and I thank you all for your attendance here, showing that! you join with the Crown Advocate} and Mr. Browett- in what has been: said. For my own part, I prefer, to regard the honour which His'
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