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want of supervision. He is primâ facie responsible for slips in
the Registry just as he takes credit to himself for the "tho-
roughly efficient" state of his office. I naturally, therefore,
addressed myself to him and the Memorandum shows what the result
was.
18.
As regards paragraph 18, I was Chief Justice of another
Colony for nearly four years and acted three times as Chief
Justice of Hongkong before I received the substantive appoint-
ment on 1st. April, 1902, and 1 do not understand the object
of the references to my leave. I have had far less than the
Regulations entitle me to ask for and, in any case, it has no-
thing to do with Mr. Kyshe.
19. As regards paragraph 19. This delusion that I have been Mr.
Kyshe's opponent ever since his arrival, possibly accounts for Mr. Kyshe's disrespectful manner. I am aware that whenever an
Acting Appointment has been likely he has come forward to claim the Acting Attorney-Generalship or Judgeship. Others, too, have
asked for such appointments but they do not come and force them-
selves upon one, vehemently urging their claims and accusing one
of being "an enemy" &c., if one replies "Well Acting Appoint-
ments are in the hands of the Governor". Worried as I have been
from time to time in this way, I may on some occasions have said
soon after Mr. Kyshe's arrival and when he was angry at not
being made Acting Attorney-General, that he had done very well in getting the Registrarship, and that I did not see that he had any claim to be made Acting Attorney-General; but I have never
stated that the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hongkong
should not (if a suitable man) rise to a judgeship or any other
appointment. Mr. Kyshe must have mistaken my meaning.
20.
As regards paragraph 20. Mr. Kyshe seems to attach impor-
tance as to whether i saw Mr. Justice Wise the same afternoon
(after
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