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Q.--Well it was a very cheap house, taking off that 15 per cent?
A. He supplied me with some materials.
Q. What materials did he supply you with?
A. The fire places and some windows which he bought at auction.
Q.—Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Did you ever ask Mr. BOWDLER to be your friend in getting you work at Tai-tam?
A.-How can I say anything? Who says so?
Q. I ask you whether you asked Mr. BowDLER to be your friend in getting you employment at Tai-tam?
A.—I did not.
Q.-Did you ever ask him to be your friend in getting you any Government Work?
A.-There was no necessity for my doing so, because all Government Works are done by tender. If I liked to take the work I could tender for it.
Q. Hon. A. LISTER.--All these Contractors go about the town talking, and saying this to that man and that to another, and people hear it and say the foremen of the Government Works are getting presents, and yet when they come up here they won't tell us anything about it.
A. I have never done such a thing.
Q-Have you ever been paid partly in copper?
A. Yes, on many occasions. A.-Yes,
Q. Do you get copper now?
A.-Last Chinese year I was paid 10 per cent. in copper. During the first six months of this year I received 5, 4, or 3 per cent. During the last six months I have not been paid any copper.
Q.-But you always knew how much copper you would get, did you not?
A.-There is no certainty about it. The year before last I used to get 10 per cent in copper always, but last year I got sometimes 5 per cent., sometimes 4, and some- times 3 per cent. This year I received some copper, but not very much.
Q.-Do I understand you to say that every year before the last you used to get 10 per cent always regularly; that last year you got 5, 4, and 3 per cent, but lately you have got very little?
A.-Last year sometimes I had to take 10 per cent, but this year very little.
Q.-You do not feel then you have been in any way ill used about this copper; you have no complaint to make?
A.--I did have some objection, because I lost from 5 to 10 per cent on the sale of the
copper.