The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-09
Cilnsg Honor One Whom they
Admire.
TESTIMONIAL TO justice JUDU
zxprassion OF Confidence and Es-
TEEN Response OF Recipient
The Tablets.
,From Saturdays Daily)

,From Saturdays Daily)
Cbief Justice Judd last evening re-
,,ivrd a delegation OF prominent Chin
$50 merchants DESTROYS of presenting
aim 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
Nr. Horace Wright, who explained the
osysect OF the visit, the following ad-
,,rrss wis read excellently we'll by Mr..
tsAnl Atai.
10 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
uortance to their fellow countrymen
we're pending before the Supreme
Chart of this land, the Chinese resi-
.ients of the Hawaiian Islands reluc-
family hesitated to tendery their con-
s;ratnlations to Your Honor upon
your completion OF quarter OF a CEN
tnry service on the Bench Of the Su-
preme Court of this country.
This objection, We trust, having been
recently happily removed, We, the
Undersigned, representing the senti-
Dents of the Chinese community of
these Islands, humbly pay our respect
ful greetings to Your Honor in recog-
nBion and appreciation of your i'm
partial, righteous and justice-uphold-
ing 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 a land, and as such an
one, 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
sass 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-
spectfully tender TO Your Honor our
true thanks. and sincerely wish that
our feeble words moro faitbfuIIv ev-
pressed to you the purer sentiments of
.11r hearts toward Won WISHING for
every blessing upon Won and vours
We have the honor 70 he sir yorr
sincere
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oh'iniu' Apfii 49, A. ~. 1889.
IN. Chief Justico varv foo,,na,v va
HP""ueu anu III 81 ooihs eouched upon
interesting "reminiscences or 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
ne 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 presen-
tation, pleasant social converse was in
obliged in. The committee of fourteen
who signed the address were all pres
emf
The representative Chinese, for
whom the commission was executed.
nave done the thing handsomely. The
memorial is a very elaborate affair, and
nothing like 1t has been seen in Homo
lulu since the Diamond Jubilee OF
Queen Victoria, when Mr.. Jacobsen
prepared the illuminated address sent
10 Her Majesty by the local British
residents.
The address proper covers two large
pages-each 1Sx15 inches-and the
reading matter is engrossed with uni
iormity in a black German text, of
graceful and slender proportions, with
illuminated XIV century initials. This
part Of the work alone, owing to the
length of the document, must have in
s"iVed deal OF patient industry. At
the top OF the first page appear two