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with acquiescence in delay. If his allegation of lack of
consideration cannot be supported by better arguments
than this, Your Lordship will I feel assured believe that
no such lack of consideration does in fact exist, though
I will admit that the ceaseless attitude of querulous
controversy assumed by Sir F. Piggott, towards the
Executive Government, which was at least as pronounced in
my predecessor's time as it has been in my own, renders
cordial co-operation in the Public interests a matter not
easy to achieve. In this connection I attach the last
letter on this subject which I have addressed to His
Honour. It is hopeless to convince a person who persistent-
-ly places a wrong and hostile construction upon every act
however well meant - as throughout his paragraphs 16 to
20 of this Memorandum and the cordial and friendly
manner in which I have invariably treated Sir F. Piggott
since I have been in the Colony to the present day, would,
I venture to think in the case of any ordinary man, have
been sufficient to convince him that no sinister and
"velled hostility" existed.
Conclosure 5.
6.
He states in paragraph 20 that
the "thoroughly unsatisfactory" attitude of the Government
towards the Chief Justice is traditional in the Colony. I
have
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