Mr Gibbons' grounds of complaint against the C.J. appear to me to be very vague and to have very little in them. I even doubt the existence of any foundation for the complaint of discourtesy on the C.J.'s part, although the C.J. may have been provoked to reply severely to Mr Gibbons' unpertinent ...
I should ... nothing ... point raised in these papers ... Mr Gibbons appears to have ... told in the ... Col...ving ... that the ... proper channel of communication from him was through the Judges, the Colonial Secretary and the Governor. Mr Gibbons says that he was told at the Colonial ...
Cap II
334
... offer that if he wished
340
to add...ress the Sover...eign ... the Government ... to ... he should do so through the Colonial Secretary.
Mr Gibbons refers to a conversation which he had with me in the course of which he asked to whom he should address any communication which he might have to make to the Government. It was obvious that he had a very exalted opinion of his position and that he expected to address the S. of S. direct, over the heads of the Governor and everybody else in the Colony. I accordingly civilly explained to him the rule which requires that communications intended for the Col. Sec. S. of S. should be forwarded through ...
Dec.