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Q.-Who was that Mr. MILLAR, that was spoke of?
A. A plumber and copper smith in Queen's Road East.
Q.-You say you might have joked sometimes about tossing for a month's pay. What was the joke?
A.-I was not sure I did say it, but I might have done so. I have heard it said "Come on, I will toss you for your month's pay against mine," but such a thing never took place, I could not afford to lose mine.
Q.-Why did you say it?
A. You may pass a thing in joke that is never done.
Q. Do you know any of these Contractors?
A.--I have to do with very few.
The CHAIRMAN reads the names of the Contractors, and the witness mentions those whom he knows.
Q.-You say you have never had any conversation with FRASER-SMITH about the Public Works Department?
A.-No, sir.
Q-But you have had some conversation, as you say now, and you told him where he got his information?
A: What he wrote about my chief.
Q.-Don't you call that conversation?
A.-Not about the department.
Q.-You never informed Mr. PRICE, I suppose, it was evident some one was giving information?
A.-No, I did not.
Q.-After the trial, you say, he came up to see you, the same evening, after you had given this evidence?
A.-No, not after I had given the evidence, but the first day of the trial, in the evening, he came up to my house.
Q. What did he say to you?
A. He bid me good evening, and I asked him to sit down. He brought a copy of the China Mail with him and said all that was published there was false, and he was going to take legal proceedings. He said all that was true was a small paragraph, I did not look at it at all.
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Why not?
A. Well, I did not. There was no reason. In fact I did not care about his coming at all, and if it had not been that I had a friend there I should have asked him to go downstairs or put bim down.