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Hongkong, June, 10.
Hongkong is sllll without news of the date of the arrival of its now Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote. "He known to have left British Guiana and is presumably. taking leave in England' before assuming. his new post," General expectation is that he Will' arrive In the Colony in the autumn, Although Sir Geoftry will suffer the disadvantage of succeeding 8 Governor who won for himself an reports, both private and from officio sources, indicate that he Is likely to rove a most acceptable administrator.
According (o art authority who has had exceptional opportunities. sessing the value of Sir Geoffry's services In British Guiana, his fair mindedness "has almost' become proverbial,, The under-dog, Mkely be squeezed, has found him*a ready champion: the capitalists concede that he has been ever willing advance their' legitimate interests. Everywhere he has carried with him an alt of trustworthiness, dignity and "No Governor of British more free of ostentation, and no Gov: ernor has carried off ceremonial ocfessions with more natural poise. His modesty of mien is like Bari Bald-Win's it cloaks a wary shrewd mind, tone which may or may not be capable of lightning flashes of Judgment, but Would, in-any event, be careful to conceal them, letting you know only In instalments, as it we geon through you and your propos ions care of some person or institution tied to Took after its welfare, Details of the Shanghai case have hot been made public, but the Society has just" taken adion in another Instance in which the child concerned only has one parent, a father who is a -drug addict. This tad is now being Temoved {oan orphanage. Meanwhile, branch secretaries of the So-doty," which docs a. most valu Wwork among the pootest of the poor, are being asked to forward reports Jon children of drug addicts. Many of these addicts, it Is stated, are often receipt of good incomes, but they squander their money on drugs and {Heir families go short In consequence.
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