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animeas ni baitijast me I quodd (enoidaangus saodt to braen to

edað2 to visdato97 erit of ano!tabno:moosı a'merida” * ri2 Ja

darit asw rettam add salt ødð da bar I .medt (oqu besaɗ eyew

dud,enoltaanqua eldtims „TH to eno to bread molasuoeib tabno

quorum eft of sonsbaro evig jon blb I darið eupastorg os saw ji

sc bluora Isoqqa to tquod add tend noltsengue sit of shulls I

on) 211% of aetantelnaM eton to eno qu gatented yď botutijenos

-elyett and dad ou jaaso 9.1t breed bad ode ogbub edit to @usiq

won duit leoltuut telan sit most laeqqs ni la of erew 20331)-

evation stimp neo I enoltaoggwa tadło ald moea svad I tadt

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oa don godt tot „mid morı staneme vilautos bib eno alɗt dadd

vent ¡daliuot yiorem trex taom erit tot sta voit ‚oupastora

to atletab Tranibro eft to somerorak ofdatnemel dova ysiðað

Notw nevA ,nemeljnog a tant gatralnotes at di Jadt „drow wod

bluoda Atim2 •M na tuod antequê edf to sonolieqxs sItti oa

-alm visitne of es beast1 oz ers merit to emot .mort obam ovar

-[90*¶ WOY of mesɛ ob vadt naa virseio meo I es,animosa :bas(-

812 yand tost ni esatedw‚enolfiaoqong Ifanoaser od of

.noiterspiegos autoinne etnemo: a to witnow Jon

dowe Janj qısalbrostixe em of ameez I

bluoda youð tædt tud ¡ebar need avad tave blwoita enoletaoqorq

&'homevo) sad to alesd sit oben gaied to +lvast odd bad evad

gatvad reve duoditw ets32 to visteros? add ot anoktaÜMEMETODBI noed

been submitted to the Chief Justice for his opinion, seems to

me to be more extraordinary still. The Chief Justice's recon-

-mendations have been disregarded on the strength of the advice

from a Magistrate who happened at the time to be filling the

office of Colonial Secretary. I venture to think that they have

had a still worse result, for they have compelled Your Excellency

to put to the Chief Justice the questions which are contained

in the letter under reply. I cannot read these questions in any

other way than this - that an impression has been created in

Your Excellency's mind that after all the remedy for the state

of affairs which the Chief Justice has reported is in his own

hands, and that if he understood his business better, and would

devote more time to the public service, there would be no need

for the appointment of another Judge.

4.

I appreciate exceedingly the delicacy with

which Your Excellency has put these questions, and I desire to

say that I fully understand that Your Excellency had no other

alternative. But this only emphasises my view that these re-

-commendations of Mr. Smith ought to have been sent to me for

my opinion at the time they were made, more especially as

almost the first statement made by Mr. Smith on the subject

that the work of the Court had not increased was shown by the

tables annexed to my letter of April, 1906, to be without

warrant.