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Q.-It would not have been possible for any outside person to have acquired this information, unless some person inside well acquainted with the letter books had given
information?
A.-Certainly not.
Q. What did Mr. SMITH actually apply for?
(Letter of application produced).
Q.-Hon. A. LISTER. But, Mr. SETH, I observe here the Colonial Secretary's Office number is really 84; it is the Colonial Secretary's number.
A.-Well, I have not looked at it, but from what I saw of it I thought not.
The letters are examined, and the witness points out that what was applied for was, the Colonial Secretary's Official letter, No. 84.
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Then that would go to show it was received from the Colonial Secretary's Office?
A.--No, because that number would refer to a letter written from the office, not a
letter received.
Q. Do you know anything about the working of the Surveyor General's Office; as to the way the books are kept?
A. No. I have had a glance at them.
Q.-Then as a matter of fact this letter could be communicated from the Colonial Secretary's Office or the Surveyor General's Office?
A. Yes, but an Officer here would quote, Colonial Secretary's Office, so and so. To quote it in this way shews it must have been some one outside.
Q.--Hon. A LISTER.-Your idea is simply from the quoting?
A.-Just so.
Hon. A. LISTER.-Well, I don't think we need dwell much on that.
Q. Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-I don't think you have seen this letter (Mr. FRASER- SMITH'S letter asking for Governor HENNESSY's despatches on the Public Works Department). How could he have obtained that information?
A.-I don't know.
Q. Are these letters published?
A.-No.
Hon. A. LISTER.--I am told there are no such despatches.
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Don't you recollect at the time of Captain THOMSETT'S little difference with the former Governor, Sir JOHN HENNESSY, it was stated that Sir. JOHN HENNESSY had himself supplied these papers to Mr. FRASER-SMITH, or that they ́. were supplied by his order? Do you know anything about that?
A.-No.