On March 1st 1907 Mr. Mansfield received a second letter of repost from the Chief Justice, enclosing a notice of a concurrent writ and an order of the Court of which substituted service was to be effected on defendant's firm.
This request was duly complied with on March 10th, the notice being served by the Consular Constable. In this case I must admit that Mr. Mansfield established a precedent for the service of a writ of summons issued by the Supreme Court on a Chinese defendant resident outside the jurisdiction of the Court by this Consulate-General, and although in my own opinion the expediency, if not the legality, of my predecessor's action is open to question, I should have been prepared, had the request been communicated to me in this form, to defer to his greater knowledge and experience of legal procedure in mixed cases in China, and undertake the service of the writ. I am still prepared to do so, but, as I am referring this point to His Majesty's Minister in Peking, I would prefer to await his instructions before taking any further steps in the matter.
The original question, however, on which I ventured to join issue with the Chief Justice, was his request that the