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(Reply:)
Chief Justice Smale to M. Gardiner Austin,
Hong Kong, 14th July, 1897
1897.
Sir,
I beg unreservedly to express my thanks to His Excellency for the full explanation contained in your letter No. 356, just received.
It is for me respectfully to bow to the decision you announce and to express my regret that a different reading of the rule by me should have caused trouble.
With so able a Bar in practice in this Colony, I feel assured...
The Honorable M. C. Austin,
Colonial Secretary