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by an early opportunity and claim before the only tribunal capable of dealing with the matter.
As I understand Your Excellency I am not to have the engines jacked for in my letter of September 7th, but instead thereof I am to be called upon to answer to the accusation made by the Chief Justice with respect to matters alleged to have occurred on October 24th. Although this course may be in accordance with the Colonial Regulations by which I submit I am not bound, it is not in accordance with the law of England to which I am subject.
I have never been appointed to the Office of Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hongkong as constituted by the Ordinance; that office is one to be held during His Majesty's pleasure; mine is for seven years only: I have been appointed to the Office of Registrar of Companies and that office is one created by the Ordinance to which remuneration is attached; mine has no remuneration attached to it, therefore I am merely a contractor who has engaged to do certain work during a period of seven years, commencing from that day - Her Majesty's Government, as I now understand, take a different view, and refuse to pay the remuneration for which I had contracted: that alone would justify me in claiming...