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Sir,
The conversation I had with you on the sub- -ject of my letter pointing out how essential it is that a Third Judge should be appointed without delay, in view of the state of business, makes me despair of being able to bring the matter home to the Government in its true light. You ask me for further statistics. But if the statistics already supplied have failed to convey an idea as to the congestion of business no further statistics will. I reported that the state of affairs during the summer of 1907 was hopeless: that in the stress of getting through one case after another, I was doing more work than two Judges at home, and that it was not fair either on litigants or myself; but the figures do not seem at all to have impressed the mind of the Government: and I gather that your view is that if no stronger figures can be produced there is not much chance of getting the Third Judgo appointed. No stron- -ger figures could be produced, for the simple reason that if anyone over attempted again to get through a similar amount of work at such high pressure, there would be a complete break- -down. The case must therefore stand at this, that for the 6th. time since I have been in the Colony, that is regularly every year, there is an imminent prospect of a deadlock. It is of course not very complimentary that my statement should not be accepted, but I share the fate of the Lord Chief Justices at home, who from Sir Alexander Cockburn to Lord Alverstone have never ceased to say with regard to the state of business in England what I have been saying for six years with regard to the state of business in Hongkong. Lord Alverstone has at last succeeded, and I am willing to make one last effort to achieve the same result in the Colony. Only please do not ask me for figures, for they evidently convey no meaning. In the first
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