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The work the "hief Justice has to get through is equal if not greater than that of any Judge at home, and it is performed in far more trying conditions than at home. It is owing to these condition that half-pay leave is

allowed to Colonial Officers.

Paragraph 4. The Vacation is useless to the Solicitors. This

is the real ground of objections to vacations as it al-- ways has been in the Colony. It means that Solicitors are not earning money in the Veations, and they come here only to make money as fast as they can; and the Court

must work whether the Judges break down or not, in order to enable them to do it. In this I am giving the actual

words used to me by one of the Solicitors.

But there is in this paragraph a gern of soundobjection.

The large firms have 2 or more partners, and one of them

is always away on a year or 18 months leave. But were

& Solicitor is practising by himself he cannot do this;

and it is with regard to such men but such men only that

the objection has any force. This was one of the objection raised by the Solicitor at his interview with me referred

to in paragraph 9: and this objection was removed by the

proposals for extending 'Vacation business'.

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I have left till the last point mentioned in paragraph 1, the

effect on the Chinese. This is obviously a serious question,

for the Chinese notion is that the Court should be ready to

hear their cases when they choose to bring them on. They

expect to be allowed to delay as long as they like, but when

they want the case heard there must be no further delay. This

also was one of the points discussed with the Solicitor at

the interview already referred to, and a preliminary under-

standing come to which he had no doubt would be acceptable by

the other Solicitors on behalf of their clients.

16. I now come to the attitude of the Government which seems to me

most extraordinary and wanting entirely in consideration for