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Chambers,

Supreme Court, Hongkong,

lat. October, 1909.

334

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Rae 9 DEC 09 I have the honour to acknowlede Your "xcel-

-lency's letter of 28th, September. I had already info med Your

Excellency that Mr. Justice Gompertz was willing to act as sole

Judre during r absence until ". Hallifax's return, as Er.

Vise had done previously. It seemed to he therefore that in

asking him whether he was willing to act Your Excellency was

seeking to confirm my statement.

2.

Mr. Rees navies' application for a fortnight'

extension of leave from 10th. September nust have been granted

by the Secretary of State as he did not mail till 17th. Aumet,

arriving 23rd. September by the Ger en Mail a fortnight later

than the one he was due to sail by.

3.

I do not quite understand the use of the

oxpression in paragraph 3 of the letter under raply "challenging

the accuracy" of Your Excelleroy's repres ntations of what took

place at a verbal interview. My desire was to correct an

erroneous impression which Your Excellency seems to have had

as to what I said.

In Your Excellency's letter of 10th.

September you referred to my strong recomendation that Mr.

Reos Davies should be appointed to act as Chef Justice during

ry absence. Any one hereafter readin that letter would, I

think, naturally come to the conclusion that I had strongly

recommended Ir. Rees Davies' appointment. Your Excellency in

paragraph 3 of the letter under reply has now put it that it

was a strong recomend tion in the circumstances. As this

correspondence may hareafter be referred to, I think it henter

that I should set out what I said to Your Excellency on the

occasion