It might be found that terminating the dispute between him and The Austry, and that some arrangement might still be come to and some explanation or apology be made which should be satisfactory and avoid the risk which final official interference would create.
I bound the Chief Justice to make no reference to my visit, to consider it wholly as friendly and unofficial. I told him that no living soul in the Colony had then seen your despatch. I found the Judge incurable and I said he would consider the visit as not having taken place.
# 176Having, as mentioned in My Despatch No. 178 of 11th instant, caused the Colonial Secretary to communicate officially with Mr. Austry, I then summoned the Executive Council and the mode of communicating your decision to Mr. Hulme was determined on a unanimous vote.
I scarcely need call your attention to the manner in which your award has been received by the parties concerned, as exhibited in the letters in which they acknowledge it.