That the Court does not sit every day or nearly every day is common knowledge, but making all allowance for the depressing effect of the war on litigation, it must be greater now than in the early eighties and it is difficult to imagine how the Chief Justice, the Assistant Judge and the Law Secretar: can have filled their time in thi days. Tradition has it that at one time both the judges were chess players; if so, means for passing idle hours in chambers were not wanting; in recent years both have been gardeners and again both have been golfers, but the positions are not the same. In any case the ad ministrative work of the Judge the head of the administration of justice in the British Courts 'n China must be considerably greater now than formerly, even li the frequency of mails and the facilities of the telegraph alone are considered.
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