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Enclosure to No. 5.

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Mr. Justice Wise's Remarks.

Supreme Court,

Hongkong, July 20th., 1908.

Sic,

in answer to your letter of July 18th.,

1903, which contains a reference to myself, 1 have the honour

to forward my account of the interview between Mr. Kyshe and

myself on the afternoon of July 7th., 1903, which account

differs from that of Mr. Kyshe. I may say that I had heard from

one of the professional gentlemen present, of what had occurred

in the Chief Justice's Chambers in the morning. During the

course of the afternoon Mr. Kyshe came to my Chambers and stated

that he had come to see me as a friend and not as a Judge. I

motioned him to a chair and sat down. He then said "l expect

you know what I have come for ". 1 said that I had heard of

scme trouble with the Chief Justice in the morning and he

(Kyshe) proceeded to give me his version. He had not proceeded

far before it was evident that his story did not tally with the

story I had already heard and when he got to the statement that

the Chief Justice had said that he (Mr. Kyshe) was never in the

office I stopped him and said that I did not believe him, but

that if the Chief Justice had said that he (kr. Kyshe) did no

work I thoroughly agreed. Mr. Kyshe then said that he could not

understand how I could say that seeing that Sir John Carrington

had told him (Mr. Kyshe) that he (Sir John Carrington) consider-

ed him (Mr. Kyshe) to be the best Registrar he ever had. I

replied that I believed that to be another lie as it was not

the

His Excellency

Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G.