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COALI Chambers; thereupon Mr Justice Snowden directed a new list of the same matters signed by Mr Mossop Deputy Registrar to be posted, announcing that these matters would be taken in Chambers to day, but I now understand that our Mossop was unable to put up that list.

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I ask this Excellency to refer to the last sentence in the Mr. Justice Snowdon's public declaration in which in order to terminate the deadlock and to save Mr. Gibbons' feelings and to smooth his path, Mr. Justice Snowden my request said he would take over the matters undisposed of owing to the deadlock.

As soon however as Mr. Justice Snowden proceeded to take these matters in Chambers the Gibbons withdrew from Chambers, taking all the papers with him, so that Mr. Justice Snowden could not proceed, causing indefinite delay in all these matters.

The question is whether the decision

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From Mr. Justice Snowdon to this festive, October 27th 1880

My dear Chief Justice.

It is right and necessary that I should inform you how far I carried out my undertaking to hear several applications pending in the Bankrupt and Probate jurisdictions yesterday.

I told the Registrar in open court that it was my intention to hear such of these as were suitable for hearing, that is to say, uncontested business in Chambers, and business suitable for the open Court, in open Court. He protested and intimated that ...

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