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my word and deed, and I instance inter alia the occasion on
which Sir John Carrington recommended me as Acting Puisne Judge so recently as the 22nd. June, 1901, but that Sir William
Goodman still holds good to his opinion and wishes to ignore my
long and meritorious service, apart from what he told me soon
after assuming duties as Chief Justice, may be seen by the
concluding paragraph of his letter, whereby he seeks still
further to damage me by saying, having regard to my time of
life and service, that "he owes it to future Chief Justices"
there are not a few of those still living, and Puisne Judges too under whom I have previouslyserved elsewhere - "who may have
similar experiences from this gentleman, to place the matter on
record by submitting it to His Excellency.
A more plainly expressed intention to
damage could not be made clearer, and the expression "gentieman"
as coming from him under the circumstances, I do not accept,
having regard to what he has charged me with, for no gentleman,
in my point of view, could have behaved in the way in which be
states that I have.
20.
The above facts stated, I am now brought
forcibly as stated in paragraph 11 above, to deal with the state-
-ment contained in paragraph 7 of the Chief Justice's letter
relative to Mr. Justice Wise and the allegation that the latter
"had occasion to turn me out of his Chambers the same day"
and which he has made capital of adding "this 1 only heard
this morning". I can prove that it was not the next morning,
that is to say the day after the regrettable incident brought
on by the Chief Justice and which has originated all the
scandal connected with this matter that he saw Mr. Justice
Wise, but the same afternoon after I had left Mr. Justice Wise's
Chambers, when the latter immediately proceeded to see the
Chief