In speaking of Mr. Kyshe as I have found him during the period of eight years he has been Registrar of the Court I can say without partiality towards him that whenever I have had occasion to transact such taxation business in the Registry I have found him careful and cautious always in Office ready to attend to matters brought before him as Registrar. Whenever I have had taxation of a Bill of Costs I have found that he has the Rules of Court guiding ready at hand and has referred to and acted on them whenever occasion required. He tells me he himself was the means of reframing the present recently framed rules regarding taxations and that the same received the approval of the Chief Justice without any material additions or alterations thereto.
To show how groundless the present complaints are, it is only at the present juncture when certain questions of practice have arisen between Mr. Kyshe as Registrar and the Chief Justice that the work he performs as Registrar is questioned in the manner it has been and that after he has performed his duties here as Registrar for so long a period. Dispatches have in the interval been sent to the Secretary of State through the Colonial authorities regarding the manner in which he, Mr. Kyshe, here performed his duties. Thus I am speaking as the Solicitor and adviser of Mr. Kyshe who feels bound to take up this uncalled for and unjustifiable attack upon his Official position and abilities having received his appointment from the Secretary of State and who has carried out his duties conscientiously and properly not only in this Colony but during a long-turned period of 32 years in the service of the Colonial Office without complaint or charge having been preferred against him.
On behalf of Mr. Kyshe, I have to ask that before he is condemned under such unjust aspersions that the whole of the evidence and report and his remarks thereon together with all correspondence connected with same be placed before the Law Officers of the Crown to advise thereon.
There is another side to this Office of Registrar to the Supreme Court, if it is true what is at present rumour that in future the Office of Registrar is to be held by a Cadet appointed to the Colony, allow me to say the Office will in such case suffer materially instead of being improved. To place an Officer who has received no training in the Law or had previous practice would be to put a man in that...
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