COPY.
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Enclosure to No. 1.
Memorandum cf what occurred on July 7th., 1903,
in Chambers.
While Summonses are being heard, Mr. Kyshe
after having left the room returns in from five to ten minutes,
and interrupts the proceedings asking for my permission to ad-
dress the assembled Solicitors and Counsel. I request him to
postpone what he desires to say until 1 am at liberty to attend to his statements. He declines, and asks me to apologise to him
for having insulted him and said I had stated"the whole Colony
knew that he did not attend to his duties". This is quite in-
correct, and I at once told him so. On the first cccasion I had
complained of what seemed to me certain irregularities in the
Registry in relation to matters which came before me in Chambers
this morning and last evening, and had sent for him to explain
these matters to me, and I told him that he did not supervise
the work of the office sufficiently, and I said that besides my
own observation I had heard similar views expressed by members of
the profession, and i thought he did not devote as much atten-
tion to the Registrar's work as he might. This second visit was
after he had fully defended his position on the first occasion
when l complained and he had then said I took advantage of my
position to make a cowardly attack on him, and my statements
were false, and asked me "apologise as a gentleman",
Throughout the whole proceedings on the second
occasion and during the latter part of the first occasion Mr.
Kyshe's manner was as offensive as possible. When asking me on
the second interview to apologise he spoke in very loud and
offensive tones, and said he so asked me under advice, but he
did not say who had advised him. His manner was so offensive 1
told him I should deem it my duty to write down what he said,
and