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His statiment therefore cannot be look upon otherwise than in
the light of another unjust attack upon my loyalty, honesty and probity. The Government records will moreover show the good
I have done outside my own especial work. While in the Straits
Settlements, where i was off and as Registrar for many years
and was thanked by the Government, Chief Justices, Judges,
Attorneys-General and other for my labours in and out of office
hours, in Hongkong similarly, combined effort is made to ruin
me.
18.
It is to be regretted that so soon after
having assumed duties as Chief Justice, having been two months
absent on leave since, bringing his time as Chief Justice to a
little over 12 months he had but very shortly before returned
from long leave in England as Attorney-General that Sir
William Goodman should at this stage have thought fit to bring
these charges against me. Indeed the last paragraph in his
letter discloses the whole purport of the letter. I say that it
is utterly false that I have ever been disrespectful to the
Chief Justice, as set forth in paragraph 12 of his letter, not-
withstanding the greatest provocation on his part towards me on
the occasion mentioned.
19.
Since my arrival in this Colony he has
shown himself to be antagonistic to my interests and a consis-
tent and persistent opponent of mine. First when Attorney-
General he informed me each time l approached him in regard to
temporary changes which every deserving officer expects as an
incentive to do better, and which each one of my predecessors
repeatedly received that he considered "1 had done very well
and in his opinion the Registrar should get nothing more
This I repeated to Sir John Carrington, the late Chief Justice
and that this gentleman was of a different opinion, I know both
my
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