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Spiro Buildings
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Savoy Hotel Mansard, Cairo, Egypt
23rd January, 1906
Winston Spencer Churchill, Esq., Mr. P.
(Under Secretary of State for the Colonies)
Dear Sir,
Will you permit me to elucidate the following circumstances? For nearly 13 years I served the Government in various capacities, and until July 1904, I held the position of Registrar of the Supreme Court in the Judicial office at Hong Kong. My services will be found satisfactory after I had applied for leave consequent upon my health breaking down due to the much overwork. My medical adviser pronounced me physically unfit and stated that I required rest.
The then Chief Justice, Mr. Goodman, sent for me while I was in Chambers and there, in the presence of several legal practitioners, began to find fault with me in matters of procedure which he did not understand and in which I was perfectly right. Intolerantly, he charged me with being about "...", and for addressing one of my standing and position in the manner that he did.
I sought the assistance of the Puisne Judge (Mr. A. G. V. Barr) whose advice I had sought (and it was duly found late in the afternoon in his Chamber), and who was then in a most excitable condition having just returned from the Bench where...