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3.
I must confess that I was in hopes that when
the Chief Justice considered the matter of such importance as to
induce him to make a formal statement to the Governor of the
Colony, that in itself would have been sufficient to induce
Your Excellency to ask for further details in order that the
matter might be gone into. But in this I have been disappointed.
Lest however there should still be any doubt in Your Excellencys
mind with regard to the accuracy of the statements I have madə
at different times as to the state of inefficiency of the Court
and its Departments when I arrived here, I desire formally to
record my opinion that the Court seemed to have fallen into a
state of apathy, and laissez aller, which I considered deplor-
-able: that I immediately took steps to introduce more vitality
and a more Court-like spirit into its proceedings, and secondly,
to effect certain reforms which were much needed. In the first
I have been successful, as all who are familiar with the Courts
know: in the second, I have not received that co-operation from
the Government which was necessary to carrying through the
necessary improvements.
4.
The matter however is an exceedingly irksome
one; the discussion of it entails correspondence which so far
has led nowhere, except to the consumption of valuable time. I
am always unwilling to confess to failing in a matter which I
have much at heart, but with this statement, that there is no
idee fixe in my mind, but a deliberate opinion arrived at after
mature consideration, and anxious thought how I could best in-
-prove a most regrettable state of affairs, I shall not allude
to the subject again.
à Excellency
Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G.
Governor of Hongkong.
I have etc., (Sd.) F. T. Pittott,
Chief Justice.