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Mr. Gibbons, and take the management of the houses out of Mr. Gibbons' hands.
Whether in this order I was right or wrong and whether what I did was right or wrong, are questions which I leave to the testimony of Mr. Mossop and Mr. Wotton though. This is a nice question not for His Excellency the Governor, but for the Privy Council.
Mr. Gibbons is necessarily ignorant of the facts and state of the case of re Kustace whatever may be the state of his knowledge of the very peculiar international law applicable to that case. Mr. Gibbons wrote without knowledge when he made a statement contrary to that part in his letter to you of 29 September.
I have taken great pains to understand the international law applicable and state positively that what I laid down in the one case is entirely consistent with the decision in the other case.
I therefore state that what Mr. Gibbons has said as to my actions in the two cases is contrary to fact.
And now I come at length to the gravamen of Mr. Gibbons' letter - his charge is that I hold that I have a right, that it is my duty to make him personally liable.
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This I acted contrary to what I had laid down in the case of Pustau's Bankruptcy. I who do know the facts are different from my decision in re Austau.
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