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CONFIDENTIAL,
Hongkong.
My Lord,
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Hongkong, 27th. November, 1908.
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I have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of Your Lordship's telegram of the 14th. of
last September and confidential despatch of the 18th. idem
with regard to the appointment of a third judge in the
Supreme Court of this Colony: and in confirmation of my
telegram of the 28th. idem I now transmit the correspon-
dence noted in the annexed schedule which has passed be-
tween the Chief Justice and myself, together with a minute
2 the Attorney General dated the 16th. instant.
2.
I am taking steps to have a Bill
drafted with the object of constituting the New Court of
Appeal.
I shall communicate further with Your Lordship
after the Bill has been considered by Sir Francis T. Piggot
with a view to submitting it to Sir Havilland de Saumarez.
I have the honour to be
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREWE,
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My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
Wangar
Governor, &e.