Hand Press on which the first issue of the NORTH-CHINA HERALD were printed.
A pressman of the old school and his grandson. down to the present time practised before the British Courts in China.
The immense assistance that men of the class we have can be to the there are few better served than Court is best known to the judges;
those of the Supreme Court. Three members of its bar presided over it as Chief Justice, Sir Richard Rennie, Sir Nicholas Hannen and Sir Hiram Wilkinson, whilst Sir Edmund Hornby,. the first incumbent of the post, and its present occupant had already presided over kong and Shanghai, there is a weakness in amalgamation; I put my criticism to one of those who "went West," a painstaking and able advocate, and he cordially agreed with me. The weakness of the system is that where the profession is small and most lawyers belong to one firm or another the conduct of a case is likely to remain almost exclusively in the hands of one man, and, if it is complicated in both law and fact, he is apt to overlook his facts owing to the apis a very mixed community, so that I have no doubt as to our having chosen the course which is best at least for ourselves.
I must not leave the Court without a reference to the public for whom it is established. They can judge best as to whether it does what they want, but it will be gathered from what has gone before that except in times of "booms " we do not see very much of the seamy side of life of which Courts are generally supposed to
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.