Mr. Harold Browett's completion on Sept. 15 of fifty years practice at the bar of HBM. Supreme Court is to be marked to-day by a delightfully intimate party in the chambers of Sir Allan Mossop who will be joined by Mr. R. F. Chester Master in the presentation to the veteran lawyer of the Bench and the Bar's respective compliments on the occasion. Birmingham has a knack of providing brilliant statesmen, alert citizens and good football teams, Its exports to China are copious and respectable. It has never sent a more acceptable export than when it consigned Mr. Hayold Browett to the safe keeping of a ship for Shanghai in Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee year. In his early days Mr. Browett duly worshipped at Shanghai's shrines of sport, besides steadily growing in esteem by reason of his professional capacity. He is within a week of celebrating the third quarter of a century of his life and his many friends will hope that to-day's eloquent proof of the affection in which he is held will reinforce his determination to continue upholding Shanghai for many years to come.
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