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this last term Sir Henry Berkeley took the work of the

Puisne Judge in addition to his own for a fortnight while

Mr. Sercombe Smith was ill, and later on the Cheung Sha

Wan Appeal Case, the Judgments in which were communicated

to Mr. Lyttelton in my Despatch No. 166 of the 28th. June,

1905, occupied the time of both Judges sitting as a Full

Court for 18 days. No complaint reached me on either of

these occasions of the general work of the Courts being

unduly delayed.

My experience on the Gold Coast

was that as soon as litigants are dissatisfied with the

expedition with which their cases are dealt the Government

is pressed to add to the number of the Judges. No repre-

-sentations have been made to me on this score here and

there have been no complaints in the matter in the public

press.

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I would further call attention

to the 2nd. paragraph of my Despatch No. 329 of the

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30th. August, 1904, in which in connection with a proposal

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that the services of one of the Judges of the Supreme

Court of Hongkong might be made available for Weihaiwei in

case of necessity, I reported that Sir William Meigh

Goodman