CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6] — Page 30

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OP Y.

X.

Chambers,

C.O. 16263

15 MAY

Supreme Court, Hongkong,

23rd. March, 1909.

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sir,

I have received Your Excellency's letter of

15th. March on the subject of the Registry with much surprise

and great regret.

2.

In my letter of 8th. February, I said that

certain statements in Mr.

Seth's letter to the Colonial

་

Secretary of 29th. January were untrue: that I stated this as

Chief Justice of this Colony, and I requested Your Excellency

to accept this statement as such. Your Excellency now informs

me that you are unable to accept my statement because you are

unable to believe that Mr. Seth has not spoken the truth. I

quite appreciate the fact that Your Excellency's kindness of

heart naturally makes you unwilling to believe this of an old

Civil Servant, but it is the inevitable consequence of the

course Mr. Seth has chosen to follow. The only other alter-

-native, which apparently Your Excellency has adopted, is to

disbelieve what I have stated. The question does not admit of

the explanation that rợ memory has failed me. I am speaking of

something which has occurred continuously since I have been in

the Colony, and which was the cause of my first letter to Your

Excellency

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