CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6] — Page 65

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some detail which though familiar to myself is unfamiliar to

Your Excellency, but I must endeavour as far as possible to

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get all the facts before Your Excellency; but I trust that

should I appear to deal with any suggestion of Mr. Smith's

too cursorily, I may be allowed to supplement this letter

verbally. I do not know any details so difficult to get the

lay mind to appreciate as those connected with Court work.

In paragraph 7 of the letter under reply

Your Excellency says "I find also that Mr. T. Sercombe Smith

when Acting Puisne Judge when Sir John Carrington was Chief

Justice undertook the Probate work and sometimes the Admiralty

work". I can only suppose that Mr. Smith made this statement

with a view of impressing upon the Governor that by doing this

work he had been of material assistance to the then Chief

Justice. Your Excellency will probably be surprised when I say

that the Probate work can be disposed of in 5 minutes every day

as an average; and that it is only on rare occasions that a

quarter of an hour is necessary. For the Admiralty work I find

on searching the records that Mr. Smith tried one Admiralty

IAVITTA

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case, lasting two days, in 1896. Apart from this, Admiralty

work is the very last that should be given to a man with little

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or ne experience; and I am not surprised to find that the

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natural inference from Mr. Smith's statement is not borne out

by