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Q.-Hon. A. LISTER. I suppose all the Contractors have made up their minds before hand what to say about this?
A.-No, I am speaking the truth.
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-What made you think this gentleman meant the clerks down below when you mentioned them?
A. He asked me who made the bills for me, and I said I got some one.
Q.-You said the clerks down below did not make them. What made you think
of them?
A.--I did say that.
Q-Well what made
A.-No.
you think of them? Some one must have told you.
Q.-Hon. A. LISTER.-You might as well have said it was not the priests at the Man Mo Temple.
ed so.
A. The bills were made by a teacher of English.
Q.-That is not the point. What put the clerks down below into your head?
A. You asked me whether the bills were made by the clerks down below.
Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-No.
WITNESS.-Truly you asked me that question; otherwise I would not have answer-
Hon. A. LISTER,-You evidently have come up here with the determination not to speak the truth. The sooner you go away the better.
WITNESS.-I am speaking the truth, and if you find that I am telling lies-
Hon. A. LISTER.-You had better go away.
The Commission adjourns.
FOURTEENTH MEETING.
29th January, 1884.
Present:-The Honourable A. LISTER, Treasurer.
F. B. JOHNSON.
Absent: The Honourable E. L. O'MALLEY, Attorney General, (Chairman).
Mr. BOWDLER is recalled,-
Q. Hon. A. LISTER.--When this inquiry was first commenced, Mr. BOWDLER, an alarm was rather raised, I think, in the Public Works Department, as we advertised we would take information confidentially. I think the Officers of the Public Works De- partment took the view that we were offering a premium for charges against them.
Was not that so ?
A.-Yes, something to that effect.