The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-06
Chinese Honor One Whom they
Admire.
TESTIMONIAL TO JUSTICE JUDD
Expression Of Confidence and Es-
teem-ReSponSe Of Recipient
The Tablets,

Chief Justice Judd last evening re-
|ceived delegation of prominent Chin
ese merchants desirous Of presenting
him with an address of congratulation
on his completion of twenty-five years
service on the Supreme Court bench of
these Islands.
Mr. Goo Kim Fui, chairman of the
delegation, having been introduced by
Mr. Horace Wright, who explained the
object of the visit, the following ad-
dress was read excellently we'll by Mr..
Paul Atai.
To His Honor, Albert Francis Judd,
IL. D., Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the Hawaiian Islands.
Sir:-As long as matters of vital i'm
portance to their fellow countrymen
| We're pending before the Supreme
Court of this land, the Chinese resi-
dents of the Hawaiian Islands reluc-
family hesitated to tender their con-
gratulations to Your Honor upon
your completion of a quarter of a CEN
tury service on the Bench of the Su-
lpreme Court of this country.
| This objection, we trust, having been
recently happily removed, we, the
undersigned, representing the senti-
ments of the Chinese community OF
these Islands, humb1y pay our respect
full greetings to Your Honor in recog-
milton and appreciation Of your i'm
partial, righteous and justice-uphold-
ling conduct and career as a judge and
your invariably honest and friendly
bearing towards our countrymen
through the many long years during
which so many of us have known you
An honest and an upright judge is the
| light and life of land, and as such an
lone, sir, We have the high honor to re-
gard you.
| We feel that you. have honored the
Bench and added bright credit to this
country as well as to your family, and
this is the duty of every true and wise
man.
| Our grateful memories will ever re-
tain the firm impression that you pos
sess just and equitable conscience
which ever distinguishes between the
power of the strong and the strength
| of the justice of the cause of the weak
/ and oppressed.
With our congratulations. we re-
lspectfully tender to Your Honor our
true thanks, and sincerely wish that
our feeble words more faithfully ex-
pressed to you the purer sentiments of
our hearts toward you Wishing for
every blessing upon you and yours,
We have the honor to be. sir, YOUR
sincere
FRIENDS and WELL-WISHERS
Honolulu, April IS, A. D. 1899.
The Chief Justice very feelingIy re-
sponded and in so doing touched upon
interesting "reminiscences of the early
advent Of the Chinese to this country.
and the greater benefits and opportun-
| tiles accorded to the race in this coun-
| try than in their own land, where to
be successful they must labor hard and
continuously.
The Chief Justice was attended by
the members of his family and on the
| conclusion of the formalities of Dresen-
tation, pleasant social converse was in
idulged in. The committee of fourteen
who signed the address were all pres
ent.
| The representative Chinese, for
Wnom the commission was executed
nave done the thing handsomely The
memorial Is very elaborate affair. and
/ nothing like it has been seen in Homo
lulu since the Diamond Jubilee of
| Queen Victoria, when Mr.. Jacobsen
prepared the Illuminated address sent
TO Her Majesty by the local British
residents.
The address proper covers two large
Ipages-each 1Sx15 inches-and the
reading matter is engrossed with uni
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