Hong Kong and private affairs as well are part of my public life, I protested that I was called upon for such defence (Please refer to correspondence which I had been forwarded to Your Lordship). My defence was that as an executor of an estate duly appointed by law, I was duty bound, in fact swore to administer the estate to the best of my skill and ability. I did so, and in doing so, I most respectfully submit that I did nothing contrary to the laws of the Colony or the rules of the service to which I had the honour to belong.
6. With reference to the concluding section of the above order, viz the severe reprimand recently administered to me for my connexion with the letting of Messrs Markham & Co., I beg to state that His request cannot be granted.
Sgd: Frederick Stewart, Registrar General. I feel and do feel that I have been most unjustly treated in as much as the whole case was conducted in a one-sided manner. I objected at the time to the manner in which the case was being conducted in the Registrar General's office, but I regret to have to note that my objection was entirely overruled. Consequently, I was severely reprimanded, but not till after all this had transpired did the Captain of Police phone me, which I looked upon as my chief...