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Chambers,

Supreme Court, Hongkong,

16th. November, 1908.

I much regret to have had no reply to my

letter of 4th. instant, on the subject of Your Excellency's speech in Council withfeference to the constitution of the Full

Court.

2.

The judgment in the case to which I have

alluded in my previous letters is now ready, and I cannot delay

its delivery beyond Wednesday next. I shall be compelled there-

-fore to make such observations as I deem necessary to restore,

so far as I am able, the confidence of the public in the Court.

It will be obvious to Your Excellency that I cannot allow either

party to the appeal to remain under the impression that the

judgment which I am about to give is a farce; nor, following

the actual words used by Your Excellency, can I allow either

party to believe, should I alter my opinion on the questions

involved, that I do not know my own mind or have been influenced

unduly by the opinion of the learned Puisne Judge: or, should

I not alter my opinion, that the appeal on which so much time,

money and thought have been expended, has been a farce. This is

the more important in this case as the parties are foreign

firms, one a large German firm trading in this Colony and else-

-where in the East, the other a very large firm of silk mer-

-chants trading in Canton. The important and difficult nature of

the questions to be decided, and the great length of the judg-

-ments which will be delivered, will I have no doubt convince Your Excellency that the questten opinion of the Court which Your Excellency has formulated is not justified, and that the

circumstances rendered the expression of it at the time most

unfortunate.