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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 16th November, 1908.
SIR, --I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of November 4th in which you inform me that my proposal to cause the actual words used by me when address- ing the Council on the subject of the Appeal Court to be published in the Local Press will not meet your views.
In deference to your opinion as Chief Justice that the remarks made by me inay be prejudicial to the administration of justice I have directed that this correspondence shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council as you desire. But I do not propose to include the enclosure to the Secretary of State's despatch or the private letter to me from Sir H. de Sausmarez which raise a separate issue.
His Honour
THE CHIEF JUSTICE.
I have, &c.,
F. D. LUGARD,
Governor, &c.