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G GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JULY, 1881.
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1. Q. What is your sur.
A. MA SIT-LÁP.
2. Q. What is your age?
A. Thirty-four years.
EVIDENCE OF MA Sit-Láp,
name and by-name?
3. Q. Who and where are your parents or guardians ?
A. I do not remember my father's clan name.
is WONG.
His name is YAI-HING. My mother's clan name
4. Q. Where is your home, how long have you been there, and when did you leave it?
A. Héung-shán district, village of Chéung-ká-pin.
5. Q. What was your occupation hitherto, what your monthly earnings, and where were you so
occupied ?
A. I earned 3-4 taels a month. I saved $100.
6. Q. Can you read or write ?
A. I cannot read or write.
7. Q. Have you any friends or relatives here in Hongkong?
A. None, except the people in the On-hing shop.,
8. Q. Have you been abroad before?.
A. I arrived on the 16th day of the first moon, and returned into the country on the 8th day of the 2nd moon. During that time I stayed at the On-hing shop. I did no work. master of the On-hing shop gave me my meals. I brought some money; 50 taels. I showed The them to a man called Li [sent for] in the On-hing shop, and gave them to him as passage money. I went back to the country because I could not get a ticket just then. I left the money with Old Lr. My passage ticket was paid for out of those 50 taels.
22. Q. What sum will you have to repay after arrival in Australia?
A. None.
Mr. Kò PAT-FUN of the On-hing shop, sent for, states :—
MA SIT-LÁP is a crimp. His business is to bring together 3-4 men at a time for emigration purposes. Sometimes he goes himself with the men, sometimes he leaves them on board and returns. He is engaged by passage brokers to get men or tickets for men. not take his meals in the On-hing shop. He never took his meals there until the 24th day MA SIT-LAP did of the 3rd moon (23rd March, 1881) when he paid for them himself. shop in the first and second moon.
He was not in the LILAM [referred to by MA SIT-LÁP, see above], accountant of the On-hing shop, sent for, states:--- MA SIT-LÁP only came to our shop a few days ago and paid for a ticket. He lived in
for some days, but I gave him no meals. He only came a few days. He was not in the my shop shop in the first and second moon. He did not leave $50 or taels 50 with me. know who MA SIT-LAP'S employer is.
I do not
EVIDENCE OF LEUNG KAM-K'WAN.
1. Q. What is your surname, name and by-name?
A. LEUNG KAM-K'WAN.
2. Q. What is your age?
A. 25 years.
3. Q. Who and where are your parents or guardians ?
A. Tak-tò, in Héung-shán district. My parents are not poor.
4. Q. Where is your home, how long have you been there, and when did you leave it?
A. I was always at home.
5. Q. What was your occupation hitherto, what your monthly earnings, and where were you so
occupied ?
A. I worked in the fields, and earned 300 cash a month.
6. Q. Can you read or write?
A. I have been in school one year. I was too poor. My parents have got money.
7. Q. Have you any friends or relatives here in Hongkong?
A. None. I have a relative, I-TS'OI, a sailor on board à steamer, but he is not in Hongkong now.
I did not meet him here.