by thour Excellency to act so athenay General from the 16th January (when I was appointed stching Chief Justice) upon the distinct understanding that he would continue to act during
absence I then stated I proposed
leave
10
H
the
of apply for
Parraigton arrived, a hate not han huoron. to regardo paragraphe & of the letters, of
ended), made no
t with
arrangement
Mr Pollock without the previous currence and sanction of Your Excellency.
Mr Pollock acted some 7 years ago,
This Colony,
afe and he
a Police Magisterte
has also acted as
Quione Judge and I
- did not then, in any case, foresee that Mr. Hyphe who has just been promoted to the Registrarship
jacf
would way desire to
Attorney General so soon after his
arrival and at a
time when the Regio-
try required his supervision, specially when Mr Pollock had become familiar.
with the various
papers
and matter
parading
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pending in the attorney General's Office. tching appointments
ALU
but
entirely matters for Your Excellency to decide upon, in the arcumstances of the present cave, I cannot see that Mr Pollock's appoint. ment can in- any way imply any want of corwideration of the merits and claims
of Mr. hyphe. I notice Mr. Pollock was called to the Bar in November 1887 and Mr. Syphe in June 1888, according to the
Law List.
May
Passing
to the utter of the 4th I observe that, in the second pars.
graph, W. Sephe alludes to certain matters which tend to show the necessity of his
in the Registry
e
presence
and that it
would be undesirabic hot at prevent to
have further " aching" appointments there. He speaks of certavie
"checked"
glave and un-
grave
hes "which he had
irregularities
discovered,
#
" past.
"the
ket of several years.
neglect
In his letter of the 5th May 1876,
ric