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Instances I am sorry to say are innumerable that the tradition

of the Colony is such as I have described it: To cite only one case showing how little regard is paid to the Chief Justice:

in the year 1906 the Acting Colonial Secretary permitted himself

in the Council of Government to make a long and highly contro- -versial attack upon a proposal I had made, in defiance of all recognised rules of debate and of courtesy to the Bench, without being called to order by the President. The correspondence on this subject took place in September, 1906.

6.

I have on previous occasions referred Your Excellency to what I consider the state of stagnation into which the Supreme Court had been allowed to fall. (I allude specially to the concluding paragraph of my letter of 7th. February, 1908). I have been trying to restore it to the position in which it ought to hold in so wealthy a Colony, and with it to obtain for the Judges more consideration from the Government than it has been hitherto customary to accord to them. I have little doubt that this unfortunate minute of Sir G. Phillippo, and the still more unfortunate construction that has been placed upon it, have had a large share in bringing about the state of things which I have endeavoured to report

to Your Excellency. The question is so important that I have the honour to request that Your Excellency will be good enough to grant me an interview in which I can go more fully into the question than is possible in a letter,

Excellency

Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong.

I have etc..

(sd.) F. T. Piggott,

Chief Justice.