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consulting me (the Judge who had had the matter before him) or
requiring the filing of an affidavit setting forth the circum-
stances and showing why the extra sum was paid in and why it
ought to be applied to that balance.
in Action No. 149 of 1902. Cross-Summonses for discovery
were taken out and sent in to me from the Registry to be heard.
I found that a piece of paper was inserted in the file agreeing
I think last May, to a postponement. In the end I had all my
work for nothing as the parties said they both intended it to
stand over.
This latter is a very small matter but I only mention it
to show i had some cause to think further supervision was neces-
sary, all these things occurring on the same morning.
As regards the underlined passage at the end of paragraph
3,1 regret that it is not an accurate statement of what occur-
red. Those present can be referred to on the point.
In my view the Registrar should have said "I regret these
matters occurred and i will give directions in the Registry for
more care to be exercised", in which case i should have said
no more about it.
4.
As regards paragraph 4. As I do not admit the accuracy of the passage at the end of paragraph 3, and certainly believe 1 did not use the expressions he mentions, I consider the explana- tion of his charge of my making "a cowardly attack" upon him,
extremely unsatisfactory.
As regards paragraph 5, 1 should think any advice tendered by Mr. Stephens, the Solicitor, depended largely on Mr. Kyshe's account of what had occurred, and if the advice was to go and
interrupt the Chief Justice while hearing Summonses in Chambers by demanding then and there an apology from him, one cannot but be astonished that the Registrar should follow such
advice
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