CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10] — Page 589

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Sir,

Chambers,

Supreme Court, Hongkong,

21st. December, 1907,

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With reference to the Rule of Court alter-

-ing the vacations of the Supreme Court in its Original Juris-

-diction which I had the honour to forward to Your Excellency on

the 7th. instant, I notice that it was not laid before the

Legislative Council at its sitting last Thursday. It has occur-

-red to me as possible that Your Excellency has sought the

opinion of the Chamber of Commerce on the question. I could of

course offer no objection to such a course, but should Your

Excellency have adopted it, I vanture to point out that in my

covering letter I have only given a brief outline of the

reasons which have induced the making of the Rule of Court. I

mention this because on a previous occasion when I had proposed

an alteration in the holding of Criminal Sessions Your Excel-

-lency's predecessor referred the question to the Chamber of

Commerce, and the Chamber expressed an opinion adverse to my

proposal. It subsequently transpired that the Chamber did not

have the minute which I had written laid before them; and I was

informed by the Chairman that had they known the reason which

had induced me to make the proposed change they would have

concurred in it. In the present case I have as above stated

prepared only a brief statement of the reasons which seem to

me to render the change in the vactions necessary, and it may be

that Your Excellency would think it advisable that I should

prepare a fuller statement of those reasons in the event of the Chamber of Commerce having been communicated with by Your Excel-

-lency.

vɔnelleɔm eis Excellency

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Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong.