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The Chief Justice has shown me Your Exoellency's letter of 4th instant on the proposal for the amalgamation of the two branches in Hongkong of the legal profession.

The Chief Justice will himself attend to Your

Excellency's suggestions on his return from leave.

Meanwhile I venture to addrece Your Excellency upon paragraph 4 of the letter of the Law Society with reference to

case which has been heard before myself.

I do not consider the criticisms therein to be fair,

and I must request Your Excellency to bear with me if I have

to go a little into detail.

I will examine shortly the circumstances of the case. On 16th March, 1914, a petition was filed for the winding up by the Court of the Yue Hing Co. on the ground, inter alia, that 125 chests of opium the property of the Company had been made away with by two of the Directora under the cloa" of bogus eales.

The rearing was lengthy: the shorthand notes of the

proceedings when typed out, oovered 1842 sheets of foolscap.

The Judgment of the Chief Justice covers 39 pages of fod soap. He made an order to wind up the Company, but declared that

though the question of fraud had been gone into at great length,

and there was grave suspicion, he was unable to sa that fraud

had been sproved. Es animadverted strongly upon the evidence of

the leading witnesses on either side.

Of course in winding up where the witnesses are merely

oross examined upon affidavits it is very difficult, indeed

almost impossible, to satisfactorily deal with questions of fraud.

His Excellency

Sir F. H. May, K. C. M. G.,

Governor.