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Q. What works do you chiefly look after?
A.-The Roads.
Q.-Do you have much trouble with the Contractors?
A.-No.
Q.-There is no doubt that before you went home either somebody in the Public Works Department or in some Government Department supplied the editor of the Hongkong Telegraph with copies of certain letters, numbers and dates, and there is every reason to believe some one in the department said he thought that you had taken this information from that waiting room outside Mr. PRICE'S Office and supplied it to Mr. FRASER-SMITH. Do you know anything about that?
A.-No.
Q.-I
suppose you know the draft letters and letter book are kept in that office
outside Mr. PRICE'S Office?
A. I believe I have seen a clip with Letters from the Colonial Secretary marked on it.
Q.-Well, there would be no difficulty in looking at the letters if you
wanted?
A.-Well, no; Mr. CHAN FUK is in charge of that.
Q.-But he is often out?
A. Yes.
Q.-Is it not a fact also that Mr. PRICE is there very often till six o'clock,"long after the Clerks have gone?
A. Yes.
Q.-And that room is open?
A. Yes, but I don't know whether his desk is open.
Q.-But supposing the desk to be open, there is no difficulty in any one going in
and copying for three quarters of an hour?
A.-No.
-Do you know anything about such a copy being taken?
A.-No.
Q.-If any one said he suspected you of taking it he would be accusing you wrong- fully?
A. Yes.
Q.-Do you know Mr. FRASER-SMITH?
A.-I know him by sight, but I never spoke half-a-dozen words to him in my life.