CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10] — Page 601

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597 14 NOV 08

Supreme Court, Hongkong,

6th. March, 1908.

On the 14th. February I had the honour to

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request Your Excellency to hold in abeyance the request convey-

-ed in my previous letters that a motion should be made in the

Legislative Council, approving a Rule of Court which I had

made extending the Vacations of the Court, I have today re-

-ceived with very great regret Your Excellency's letter dated

22nd. February, and held over for reasons given in the Post-

-script, till yesterday, informing me that Your Excellency is

unable to support the proposal, which has been made with the

unanimous approval of the whole of the legal profession.

2.

With the greatest respect I have the honour

to point out to Your Excellency that my request is at present

în abeyance, as some matters of detail still remain to be sat-

-tled, between the Bar and the Solicitors. My further action in

the matter will depend on the result of discussions now going

on; but until they are concluded I cannot decide whether or not

I shall revive my request for a motion to be made in Council ap-

proving the Rule of Court.

3.

I shall in due course forward to Your

Excellency a minute dealing with the whole matter. But I can"

-not refrain now from expressing my profound regret that Your

Excellency should so far back as the 22nd. February, have formed

an opinion adverse to the proposal of the legal profession, on

the very insufficient data supplied by the correspondence at-

-tached to Your Excellency's letter. Many things have happened

since then, and although the Committee of the Chamber of Com-

-merce are "still unalterably" of the same opinion as they were

before