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exophages in the matter by my predecessor in Office. I further stated the objection to my continuing the management of property of character, on which the Chief Justice rested in mere gossip, and as Shadbolt had made an affidavit of the facts he would not receive my statement. To this I replied that my information was derived, as in fact it was, from the Books of the Registrar General, in which three of the houses in question were entered as licensed brothels.
On this the Chief Justice, turning to Mr Wotton who had come into the room meanwhile, asked what order he desired, and told me that talking was nonsense and insulted me so grossly, that I felt, with due regard to my own self-respect, I could not take any further part in the discussion.
The Chief Justice thereupon, contrary to what he laid down in the Justan's Bankruptcy Case, directed that a meeting of Creditors should be called to appoint a Creditors' Assignee to relieve me from my position and in the meantime stopped the proposed sale.
Now as regards myself, I am quite content to be relieved from a position, which I feel to be as unbecoming to myself as to the Court of which I am an Officer, but the action of the Chief Justice in Justan's Case, which prevented the Creditors...
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self; -respect, take any further part in
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