3 35 on highly insubordinate, which Mr. Gibbons, : the Registrar of the Supreme Court had made on the preceding day from his official seat in the Court. Acting on the advice of the Executive Council, I enquired of Mr. Gibbons whether the newspaper report of his statement was substantially correct, and, if so, what explanation he had to offer for publicly making such a statement.
2. Your Lordship will have seen from my despatch No. 183 of the and Gov "of November, 1880, that after Mr Gibbons had been invited to explain his conduct, he still continued to address the public in the same style from the Registrar's seat in the Supreme Court, and that I therefore felt it necessary to interdict him under clause XXXII of the Royal Instructions, whilst proceeding to deal with him under Chapter IV § II of the Colonial Regulations.
3. Mr. Gibbons did not deny the substantial accuracy of the newspaper report; and, in explanation of his conduct, pointed out that he had in the month of September and October written certain letters making grave charges against the Chief Justice, to which letters, he asserted, he had received no reply. In asserting that he had not received any reply to his letters he overlooked the fact that the two first of them (the letters of 6th and 7th
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Corrected to proper markdown and HTML is not needed as per the latest instruction, here is the revised version in markdown: 3 35 on highly insubordinate, which Mr. Gibbons, : the Registrar of the Supreme Court had made on the preceding day from his official seat in the Court. Acting on the advice of the Executive Council, I enquired of Mr. Gibbons whether the newspaper report of his statement was substantially correct, and, if so, what explanation he had to offer for publicly making such a statement. 2. Your Lordship will have seen from my despatch No. 183 of the and Gov "of November, 1880, that after Mr Gibbons had been invited to explain his conduct, he still continued to address the public in the same style from the Registrar's seat in the Supreme Court, and that I therefore felt it necessary to interdict him under clause XXXII of the Royal Instructions, whilst proceeding to deal with him under Chapter IV § II of the Colonial Regulations. 3. Mr. Gibbons did not deny the substantial accuracy of the newspaper report; and, in explanation of his conduct, pointed out that he had in the month of September and October written certain letters making grave charges against the Chief Justice, to which letters, he asserted, he had received no reply. In asserting that he had not received any reply to his letters he overlooked the fact that the two first of them (the letters of 6th and 7th Page 35