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advice.
6.
As regards paragraph 6. What really occurred is fairly
stated in the Memorandum signed by all present and includes the
statement that 1 did ask Mr. Kyshe to leave the room. He was
simply interrupting the proceedings.
7. As regards paragraph 7, I must refer, as Mr. Kyshe resents
my language to a matter which occurred some time ago. One dif-
ficulty I have always had with him is that whenever an "acting
appointment" as Attorney-General, Puisne Judge &c., has become
necessary, he has assumed it ought to have been given to him.
He has usually seen me, put forward his claims with much in-
sistency, and shown the greatest resentment when the Governor
has made another appointment. It is not pleasant to be charged
with being a man's "enemy", and so on, because he does not get
some acting appointment he desires. I acted as Chief Justice
from March to August, 1895, before Mr. Kyshe's arrival in the
Colony, which occurred in January, 1896. 1 acted again as Chief
Justice January to May, 1896, and I believe Mr. Pollock (K.0.)
acted for me as Attorney-General. Several years before he had
acted as Fuisne Judge. But after Mr. Kyshe's arrival he seemed
to consider himself an ill-used man if he was not appointed. I
acted a third time as Chief Justice, in Sir John Carrington's absence, from April, 1899, to February, 1900, and I think Mr.
Pollock again actel as Attorney-General. In January, 1900, while
I was so acting as Chief Justice, Mr. 1. Sercombe Smith was ap- pointed by the Governor to act as Fuisne Judge, during the absence of Mr. Justice Wise. I had nothing to do with the matter but Mr. Kyshe evidently supposed I had, and came into my (the Chief Justice's) room, I presume to take me roundly to task. No other officer ever took such liberties with me. Mr. Kyshe spoke of their being a"conspiracy" against him and was most offensive
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