Bailiff of Guernsey and its Dependencies His many friends in Shanghai and in China generally will receive with interest and pleasure the news that Sir Havilland Walter de Sausmarez, formerly Judge of H M. Supreme Court in China, has been appointed Bailiff of Guernsey and its Dependencies by His Majesty the King.
In its report of the appointment, the 'Guernsey Evening Press' of December 12, states that St. Martin's has now the distinction of holding His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor and the President of the States of Guernsey, and their residences are but a stone's throw from each other, Sir Havilland had a cheery day yesterday, says the paper. It mus, have been just a bit disturbing to the required mental concentration on golf to respond to an eternally ringing phone at the Royal, Guernsey Golf Club house, but Sir Havilland accepts congratulations with charming grace, and there was even a relaxing of the stern legal mien that would have revised the character sketch of any "Gentleman with a Duster."
Then in the afternoon, a grey, quiet afternoon, it was pleasant to walk through the big Manor fields, and the Manorial umbrage of trees and shrubs, past the verdant little lake with its well-appointed craft, and knock for admission at the great doors, So through the great Hall—one el the largest in Guernsey, by the way—into the study; and here, indeed, was the soul of the new Bailiff expressed in tomes. There were indications of Sir Havilland's love for his native island in almost complete cycle of works on Guernsey which he possesses, and which have been to him the Sernian pasturage wherein he might browse under the hot Kastern skies. And if "literature in a hurry" © counts for anything, there is that great pile of newspapers, for, be it known, Sir Havilland was never far away that his Guernsey newspaper could not intrigue him. So it will be-apprehended that Sir Havilland did not come to Guernsey with a "twilight" knowledge and merely an anecdotage. He came mentally replenished with the living present, and at once entered into our public life with zest. His remarkable powers were never better seen than at the St. Martin's public mass meeting on the subject of Island Taxation, when in a summing up speech of remarkably clarity e placed a confused conflict of opinion into three definable propositions, and secured a reasoned and properly directed vote. That was a masterly chef @euvre which has been vividly remembered. Of his kindliness in giving his beautiful estate for the use of the St. Martin's Cottage Garden Society Shows, the Committee's gratitude is a "hardy an-
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