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Lordship the correspondence relating to the extension of

Supreme Court Vacations and that I did so without first

giving him an opportunity of commenting upon it. He adds

that he had always intended to submit the whole question

to Your Lordship. I had no knowledge of such intention nor

did Sir F. Piggott make any mention of it prior to his

letter of the 16th. ultimo; and I had no intention of

troubling Your Lordship with the correspondence had not Sir

F. Piggott dragged the subject into his letter of the 12th.

of March, regarding the status of the Registrar of the

Supreme Court, as an instance of "the Official ignoring

of the Judges* of which he alleged that he had on many

occasions to complain.

The letter to the "China Mail*

was a part of the correspondence which I deemed it my duty

to include, and had I done so without comment, I should

have led Your Lordship to infer that I saw no irregularity

in the course His Honour had adopted.

In the circumstances in which the

Chief Justice alluded to the correspondence,

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viz.:- in

support of an accusation that the Government ignored the

Judges - he could hardly expect that I could do otherwise

than forward for Your Lordship's information the corres- -pondence