COPY.
Enclosure to No. 5.
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Remarks by Sir W. Meigh Goodman, Chief Justice, on Mr. Kyshe's Answer (dated 18th. July, 1908.)
Freliminary.
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1.
I am somewhat astonished at the general tone of the answer.
Until that was sent in, I had supposed that the only question
was "it being granted that Mr. Kyshe had been most disrespectful
to me in Chambers, while sitting there as Chief Justice taxing
Chambers work and attended by Counsel, Solicitors, and the
Deputy Registrar in the usual manner, ought I or ought I not to
accept an apology tendered to me in the presence of no one but
Mr. Kyshe himself, or was it not rather my duty to report this
gentleman's conduct to Your Excellency in order that you might
know what the Chief Justice was called upon to submit to from
the Registrar of the Court, a Member, like the Chief Justice of
the Civil Service of this Colony",) had decided that it was my
duty to adopt the latter course and reported the matter accor-
dingly. The unpleasantness occurred on 7th. July. On Wednesday,
the 8th. July, I was treated to the extremely unpleasant
experience of Mr. Kyshe, going down literally on his knees in
my room, begging me not to report him. He said "I will kneel to
you" and to my astonishment proceeded to do so in a somewhat
dramatic fashion. This was less than twenty-four hours after I
had been treated to about as much insolence before Members of
the profession, as 1 should think any Chief Justice over re-
ceived from a Registrar,
Few days elapse, and now Mr. Kyshe alters his tone and
assumes the roll of an indignant accuser. All this can scarcely
conduce