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(after the occurrence in Chambers) or the next morning. My
belief is that my statement was absolutely correct. If, however,
Mr. Justice Wise should say I am mistaken 1 am open to correc-
tion. I have asked him and he says his recollection corroborates
mine but it is immaterial. Mr. Wise tells me he did come to see
me the same afternoon after the occurrence in his Chambers. He
says he came to my room but I was not in and he then went down stairs. Possibly Mr. Kyshe "observed" him (Mr. Wise) come to
my room but did not "observe" him go down stairs. It was next
morning he told me what had occurred. The point is, 1 neither saw nor communicated directly or indirectly with Mr. Justice
Wise between the time Mr. Kyshe was rude to me and the time he
was turned out of Mr. Wise's room. Anything Mr. Wise may have
heard from others had nothing to do with me. I took no steps to
approach him to give him my version as Mr. Kyshe seems to have done with results, no doubt to be regretted, but for which i can take no responsibility. I will leave Mr. Justice Kise, accordingly, to deal with paragraphs 21 and 22.
21. As to paragraph 23, 1 am not aware of any "scandal" as far as I am concerned. If the Registrar is disrespectful to the Chief Justice he must expect to be reported. At present I have had no offer of an apology in Court, or even in Chambers in the
presence of those who heard and witnessed what took place. No "ample apology" has been made so far. I am content to leave the matter in the hands of his Excellency and certainly have no objection to any enquiry into the working of the Registry and the duties respectively performed by its officers. If such an enquiry shows that, for the last few years, the Registrar per- sonally has done his fair share of that work, it will no doubt
be satisfactory both to himself and others.
22. In conclusion I should like to point out that although I
have
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