CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11] — Page 104

COPY.

Enclosure to No. 5.

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Remarks by Sir W. Meigh Goodman, Chief Justice, on Mr. Kyshe's Answer (dated 18th. July, 1908.)

Freliminary.

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1.

I am somewhat astonished at the general tone of the answer.

Until that was sent in, I had supposed that the only question

was "it being granted that Mr. Kyshe had been most disrespectful

to me in Chambers, while sitting there as Chief Justice taxing

Chambers work and attended by Counsel, Solicitors, and the

Deputy Registrar in the usual manner, ought I or ought I not to

accept an apology tendered to me in the presence of no one but

Mr. Kyshe himself, or was it not rather my duty to report this

gentleman's conduct to Your Excellency in order that you might

know what the Chief Justice was called upon to submit to from

the Registrar of the Court, a Member, like the Chief Justice of

the Civil Service of this Colony",) had decided that it was my

duty to adopt the latter course and reported the matter accor-

dingly. The unpleasantness occurred on 7th. July. On Wednesday,

the 8th. July, I was treated to the extremely unpleasant

experience of Mr. Kyshe, going down literally on his knees in

my room, begging me not to report him. He said "I will kneel to

you" and to my astonishment proceeded to do so in a somewhat

dramatic fashion. This was less than twenty-four hours after I

had been treated to about as much insolence before Members of

the profession, as 1 should think any Chief Justice over re-

ceived from a Registrar,

Few days elapse, and now Mr. Kyshe alters his tone and

assumes the roll of an indignant accuser. All this can scarcely

conduce