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It was a matter of notoriety before the then Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice Snowden, went home that the course of true official harmony between him and the Go- vernor had been running anything but smoothly. So much so was this the case that a statement of their unpleasant rela- tions was sent Home, and Mr Justice Snow- den was ruled wrong on both the points which were stated by the official account laid before the Secretary of State to have led to the serious misunderstanding or estrangement then existing between the Head of the Executive and the acting Head of the Judiciary. One of the points on which they had differences was the escape from Justice of Mr Huffam, the other was the pardoning of a man, (convicted of the Shek-O murder), on the ground that he had not been defended by a solicitor as well Babarrister,
Mr Justice Snowden re- monetrated against the order to apologize, and sent home an account of the sireum- stances; he left for England not long ago, as our readers are aware, and will just about have reached England by this time; so that he has not had time to lay his case personally before the Secretary of State. We now learn that a despatch has been received by the mail just to hand, in which the Secretary of State gives his decision that Mr Justice Snowden must apologize { > the Governor for his action in the matter, and that Her Majesty's Secretary of State wat, surprised to learn that he had not already done so. This decision is certainly surprising to us, and will be equally surprising to those who have so long known and admired the amiability and invariable gentlemanly and courteous bearing of our absent Puisne Judge.
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