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I was acting, and when I answered, as was the fact that I was not prompted by any one, he contradicted me in a rude manner, and said that he knew Mr. Brereton, had "put me up" to doing what I was then about, which was not the fact, although I have since been in communication with Mr. Breretons.
Not only did the Chief Justice act discourteously towards me when I met him in Chamber, but he treated me in such a manner publicly in Court that the Public Press commented on his behaviour on more than one occasion.
I had previously brought to the notice of His Excellency a passage in one of his marginal notes. His Excellency referred to Mr. Gibbon the judgment "... sent to the Press for publication ...", a point which reflected most strongly on my character for honesty and integrity, but on which no further step has yet been taken.
Notwithstanding all these annoyances, I have continued to do the work of my Office and have reduced that which, I found in the utmost disorder, to something like order and regularity; however, now that I have come to the point of dealing with the Bankruptcies with which the Convict Department is connected, I am met with difficulties which the power and influence of the Chief Justice enables him to raise and which I am unable to overcome.
I have brought these obstructions to the notice of His Excellency through the medium of the Chief Justice, but with the ingenuity of the Chief Justice and the advantage ...