Comparison With Old Mixed Court Much to Cre¢ of the New:
Masses of Work and How it The Mixed Court "never was a popular place with local journalists. Approached from any direction, the route was through an unsavoury district, and the court was dismal ahd depressing. Beyond that, with some three or four courts usually sitting at the same time, Magistrates, Assessors, litigants, and witnesses speaking a variety of lange nages, with frequently very _indistinct translations, even if they were sufficient, and strange Chinese names which it was very difficult to identify, it was not an ensy task] to secure good copy. Had it not] been for the ready assistance of Mr. Wheeler and his staff, who really had quite enough to do without, wanting to be bothered by others, reporters would have missed many a good story.
'A visit this week, for the first time] since it has become a Provisional] Court, under a changed administration, was a revelation, and it is! because the present court in its! early days was somewhat severely: criticized—justifiably as matters stood then—and it now shows a remarkable improvement, that acknowledgment of the fact should be made. The long-absent reporter, from what he had heard and read of the Provisional Court, anticipated far greater trouble" than ever before, and $0, after reaching the Court through street which the Municipal Council has improved almost beyond cognition, he made straight for the old acquaintances, who took a great deal of finding.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.