When the Brooke Drive was lengthened and improved, I would use that lane as a short cut to go home. There was also less traffic there. But most interestingly I could ride with a few friends along the Hose Lane. We would pass the Wong Mansion (Wong Siong Mee's house), the Ling Mansion (Rev Ling Kai Cheng's mansion), the Tiang Family home, and a few other friends' wooden houses.
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| Rev Ling Kai Cheng's house. |
Most importantly, my third uncle and his family also lived in a pretty cottage at that lane.
Not many people knew the name Hose at that time. A young cousin thought that because the lane was small and long, looking like a hose, it was called Hose Lane.
Most Foochows called it Hor Zhu Lane, which sounded very auspicious. And it sounded liked Hor Teacher Lane.
We never really learned why it was called Hose Lane until we were adults.
It was actually named after Drl Charles Hose, a former Resident of Sibu.
Dr. Charles Hose died on Nov.14 1929.
He was born on Oct 12 1863. He was a keen naturalist and had the hait of collecting specimens while at schol. Although he was enrolled into Jesus College, Cambridge, he never took his degree. His ucle, the Bishop of Singapore, Labuan and Sarawak got him a cadetship under Rajah Charles Brooke. And so on April 15 1884 he landed i Kuching. He was sent to the Baram where he remained about 18 years.
In 1904 he was appointed Resident of Sibu (Rajang District) and he retired in 1907, when he returned to England.
In 1916 he was appointed superintendent of the munitions factory at King's Lynn and in 1918 he was chairman of the Cotton-waste Mills Investigation Committee.
Extracted from Wikipedia:
His large collection of ethnographic objects from Borneo was purchased by the British Museum in 1905.[4]
Animal species named after Hose[edit]
Amphibians
- Hose's frog, Odorrana hosii found in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
- Hose's tree frog, Philautus hosii endemic to Borneo: Indonesia and Malaysia prob. Brunei.
- Hose's toad, Pedostibes hosii, toad in Southeast Asia: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand
Birds
- Hose's broadbill, Calyptomena hosii endemic to Borneo.
- Black oriole, Oriolus hosii endemic to Borneo.
Mammals
- Hose's shrew or Bornean pygmy shrew, Suncus hosei endemic to Malaysia.
- Hose's pygmy flying squirrel, Petaurillus hosei endemic to Malaysia.
- Four-striped ground squirrel, Lariscus hosei endemic to Borneo.
- Hose's palm civet, Diplogale hosei endemic to Borneo: East Malaysia and Brunei.
- Fraser's dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei
- Hose's leaf monkey, Presbytis hosei endemic to Borneo.
Places named after Hose[edit]
Place
Bibliography[edit]
Books authored by Charles Hose include:
- A descriptive account of the mammals of Borneo (1893)
- The Pagan Tribes of Borneo (a Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic Relations) (with William McDougall) (1912)
- Natural Man: A Record from Borneo (1926)
- Fifty Years of Romance and Research - Or a Jungle-Wallah at Large (1927)
- The Field Book of a Jungle-Wallah: Being a Description of Shore, River and Forest Life in Sarawak (1929)
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