at his request, I sent the draft to him for perusal. He, however, returned it with an intimation that he preferred to write officially himself, and he takes exception to my having referred in my draft despatch to the contents of the letter marked "private and confidential" in which he demanded the personal interview.
4. I do not in the circumstances allude further to the conversation with myself, but I consider it right to report to Your Lordship the bare facts I have detailed, and I submit that in the very unfortunate official relations which exist between the Executive and the Chief Justice, and looking to the wholly official nature of this correspondence, it is impossible for me to treat "private and confidential" letters which form an integral part of the action taken as though they did not exist or partook solely of the nature of private communications between two friends.
5. I have the honour to enclose Sir F. Piggott's letter dated July 13th, 1909. I requested the confidential comments of the Acting Attorney-General (Sir Henry Berkeley) upon it, and I attach a copy of his minute, in which you will observe that he gives it as his opinion that the scheme now abandoned was a workable one.