though the point afterward proved very important - no such instruction was given till more than eight months subsequently - viz 25th July 1865.
In a similar way I think it evident that the Acting Judge of the Summary Court seems to have taken matters somewhat supinely as when he had been refused additional Bailiff by the Administrator, he did not evince sufficient anxiety to take adequate steps to explain how impossible it was that the additional duties suddenly cast on his Court could be otherwise satisfactorily carried out.
Moreover in his letter of the 22nd June he evidently thinks the Bailiff's postponement of the Government business to the ordinary routine business of the Court a sufficient excuse.
On the whole it appears to me that while the Public interests were obviously insufficiently attended to there were others blamable as well as the Treasurer, and the continued refusal to the latter of all extra aid by the Administrator, though imposing on him a new and difficult duty