CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12] — Page 333

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Chambers,

Supreme Court, Hongkong,

6th. November,1908.

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sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excel-

-lency's letter of 6th. October, in reply to mine of 29th.

September. I have already referred to paragraph 2, which relates

to Your Excellency's speech in Council alluding to the constitu-

-tion of the Full Court, in my letter of 28th. October. The

remaining paragraphs relate to the general relations of the

Government and the Chief Justice which I have so frequently

informed Your Excellency are and always have been in my opinion

eminantly unsatisfactory. In dealing with the two examples of

the lack of consideration shewn by the Government to the Chief

Justice, Your Excellency is pleased to say that it appears to

have become an idee fixe in my mind, and that you fear it is

beyond your power to remove it. With regard to these cases I

will content myself with saying that I do not know one more

qualified, nor, outside the legal profession, any one at all

qualified, to give Your Excellency advice as to the requirements

of the Colony in the matter of the Judicial staff. But the

uncomplimentary meaning of the term idee fixe is well-known to

Your Excellency and myself. I therefore feel bound to inform

Your Excellency that my training and daily occupations preclude

the possibility of my forming an opinion on any subject, more

especially one which concerns my office and the administration

of justice, without duly weighing the circumstances which have

necessitated the forming of that opinion. In this case my

opinion began to be formed very soon after I arrived in the Colony, and it has been gradully strengthened during 34 years'

experience, and I find no reason as time goes on for in any

way modifying it. It was an opinion which any one coming newly

ghodanok to Tomtevo?

to