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this last term Sir Henry Berkeley took the work of the
Puisne Judge in addition to his own for a fortnight while
Mr. Sercombe Smith was ill, and later on the Cheung Sha
Wan Appeal Case, the Judgments in which were communicated
to Mr. Lyttelton in my Despatch No. 166 of the 28th. June,
1905, occupied the time of both Judges sitting as a Full
Court for 18 days. No complaint reached me on either of
these occasions of the general work of the Courts being
unduly delayed.
My experience on the Gold Coast
was that as soon as litigants are dissatisfied with the
expedition with which their cases are dealt the Government
is pressed to add to the number of the Judges. No repre-
-sentations have been made to me on this score here and
there have been no complaints in the matter in the public
press.
3.
I would further call attention
to the 2nd. paragraph of my Despatch No. 329 of the
G
30th. August, 1904, in which in connection with a proposal
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that the services of one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court of Hongkong might be made available for Weihaiwei in
case of necessity, I reported that Sir William Meigh
Goodman