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of September, 1880,) were withdrawn by

him

after

I had caused them to be

submitted to Sir John Imale for his observations. Mr. Gibbons has also overlooked

the fast, that, when, towards the end of the month of September he again sent in the letter of the 7th of September and others making charges against the Chief Justice

expressing the wish that

the wish that they should

¡ and expressing

be sent to the Secretary of State, he was officially informed that, for the purpose of transmitting them to Your Lordship, his letters should be in duplicate, and

he

be accordingly sent them in in

and was

fully

aware

duplicate,

of the fact that I

had again submitted them to the Chief Iustice for His Honour's observations

and he seems also to have overlooked the

letter he received from the Acting

Acting Colonial Secretary, dated 29th September, 1880, acknowledging the receipt of his letters. ...

for the purpose of being forwarded to "Her Majesty's hincipal Secretary of State for!

the Colonies."

4.

In addition to his official

Knowledge of the fact that his letters of

complaint were being dealt with in

course,

in the he also knew that

ordinary immediately after he had made his.___ first complaint against the Chief Justice, "I endeavoured, unofficially, to get the matter amicably settled, and he further knew that when he insisted on having laid before Your Lordship the letter he