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Q.-Mr. BOWDLER in that particular matter was acquitted; the charge was not proved?
A. Yes.
Q.-Nevertheless, did you not know as well as I do that Mr. BowDLER had been thrashing those men?
A. On the section of the work I was on I did not know he had been striking a I was not asked the question whether I had heard any one say so. I was asked the question whether I had seen him, and I said no.
man.
Q.-Well, I should like to ask you in the same way, are you keeping back anything now, something we don't happen to ask you, but something you know ?
A.-No, nothing at all. Since I have been in the department, I have been shifted here and there, at Tai-tam Water-works, Causeway Bay Break-water, and all over the place.
Q.-But you all talk amongst yourselves, and I have no doubt every man knows what the others know. You must know something about this?
A.-No, I have not heard any man say a word.
Q.-Never heard anything about making money?
A. No, never in my life.
Q-I suppose you know money is made by Clerks of Works and so on?
A.-No; I have been Clerk of Works here and at home. I never had money offered me.
Q. Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Have you anything to do with the overseeing of con- tracts ?
A.-I have now.
Q-That is to say, on roads?
A. Yes.
Q.-But with regards to contracts for other public works?
A.-No; I have nothing to do with them.
Q.-Then as foreman mason all you have to do is with regard to roads?
A.-No; I was on the Praya-wall.
Q. And you have to inspect these contracts ?
A. Yes, to see the work is carried out according to contract.
Q.-Have you ever had complaints to make?
A.-Oh, yes; often we have to make complaints to the Surveyor General, and he will go and have a look at it, and if it is not to his satisfaction he will take it down again.