CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9] — Page 186

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at his request, I sent the draft to him for perusal. He, 183

however, returned it with an intimation that he preferred

to write officially himself, and he takes exception to my

having referred in my draft despatch to the contents of

the letter marked "private and confidential" in which he

demanded the personal interview.

4.

I do not in the circumstances

allude further to the conversation with myself, but I

consider it right to report to Your Lordship the hare

facts I have detailed, and I submit that in the very

unfortunate official relations which exist between the

Executive and the Chief Justice, and looking to the wholly

official nature of this correspondence, it is impossible

for me to treat "private and confidential" letters which

form an integral part of the action taken as though they

did not exist or partook solely of the nature of private

communications between two friends.

5.

I have the honour to enclose Sir

F. Piggott's letter dated July 13th., 1909. I requested

the Confidential comments of the Acting Attorney-General

nclosure 1.

Enclosure 5.

Sir Henry Berkeley) upon it, and I attach copy of his

minute, in which you will observe that he gives it as his

opinion that the scheme now abandoned was a workable one,

for