COFY.
Sir,
No.1.
Supreme Court,
Hongkong, 8th. July, 1903.
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His Excellency
I regret to have to inform you that I feel
it my duty, as Chief Justice, to submit for your consideration
what I deem to be the extremely disrespectful and improper
language, tone, and bearing of Mr. J. M. N. Kyshe, the Registrar
of the Supreme Court, towards myself as Chief Justice of this
Colony, on 7th. July, 1903, while I was sitting as Judge in
Chambers hearing summonses attended by Counsel and Solicitors.
In various matters, in the papers submitted
to me from the registry, i noticed what appeared to me irregula-
rities; as for instance a summons brought on for hearing io a
case where there had been entered on the file in the Registry a
stay of proceedings ordered by the Court until Security was
given to the satisfaction of the Registrar which had not been
done. (I can if necessary give the various details). In the
result i sent a note asking the Registrar kindly to attend me in
Chambers, and as his explanations did not appear to me to be
satisfactory, I told him that I did not consider he supervised
the work of the office sufficiently and, upon his resenting this.
1 said that in addition to what I had observed myself I had
heard similar views expressed by members of the legal profession
and I thought he did not devote so much attention to the
registrar's work as he might do.
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I did not say this in any offensive way
but, knowing that the Deputy Registrar Mr. Seth had been in
Court
Sir H. A. Elake, G.0.M.6.