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Sir,
4.
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Supreme Court,
Hongkong, October 3rd., 1903.
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt
of your letter of the 1st. instant received late yesterday after.
-noon, transmitting a supplementary Report by the "Registry
Commission" concerning what I have already alleged in reference
to Mr. Seth, my only Deputy for many months, spending nearly
the whole of his time in the Chief Justice's Charbers, leaving
me practically to do the work of the Registry alone with Mr.
Xavier, who is both the Chief Justice's Clerk and my own. 1
have made my statement on cath notwithstanding whatever his
honour and kr. Seth ray say to the contrary. Naturally they will
work together to deny this: but it is just what I expected and
only natural, after what has occurred, that my allegations
would be denied by the Commissioners.
8.
It is pointed out that the Chief Justice
and Mr. Seth are the only persons who could know what occurred
in His Honour's Chambers and upon that the conclusion is
straightway formed: but does not this alone shew that the
Registry and therefore myself, must have been left without his
assistance for a long time and if Mr. Seth was not assisting
and acting as clerk to the Chief Justice, I wish to be informed
what he was doing during the lengthy hours he spent almost
every day in the Chief Justice's Chambers, a rost unheard of
proceeding inasmuch as it left the Registry in my hands entire-
ly as the Chief Justice refused to have Mr. Xavier as his clerk,
although he now employs him, but as stated by his honour in
the honourable
The Colonial Secretary.
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