COFY.
Enclosure to No. 5.
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Mr. Justice Wise's Remarks.
Supreme Court,
Hongkong, July 20th., 1908.
Sic,
in answer to your letter of July 18th.,
1903, which contains a reference to myself, 1 have the honour
to forward my account of the interview between Mr. Kyshe and
myself on the afternoon of July 7th., 1903, which account
differs from that of Mr. Kyshe. I may say that I had heard from
one of the professional gentlemen present, of what had occurred
in the Chief Justice's Chambers in the morning. During the
course of the afternoon Mr. Kyshe came to my Chambers and stated
that he had come to see me as a friend and not as a Judge. I
motioned him to a chair and sat down. He then said "l expect
you know what I have come for ". 1 said that I had heard of
scme trouble with the Chief Justice in the morning and he
(Kyshe) proceeded to give me his version. He had not proceeded
far before it was evident that his story did not tally with the
story I had already heard and when he got to the statement that
the Chief Justice had said that he (Mr. Kyshe) was never in the
office I stopped him and said that I did not believe him, but
that if the Chief Justice had said that he (kr. Kyshe) did no
work I thoroughly agreed. Mr. Kyshe then said that he could not
understand how I could say that seeing that Sir John Carrington
had told him (Mr. Kyshe) that he (Sir John Carrington) consider-
ed him (Mr. Kyshe) to be the best Registrar he ever had. I
replied that I believed that to be another lie as it was not
the
His Excellency
Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G.