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Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Do you sit in the ante-room adjoining Mr. PRICE'S
room?
A.-No, I sit in an office of my own.
Q.-Then you have nothing to do with this particular branch of the correspondence to which this letter referred?
A.-No, nothing whatever.
Q.--Did you see the draft when it was here?
A.--No.
Q.—And did not know anything about the letter before it appeared in the paper?
A.-No. I had never heard of it.
Q.-Do you know FRASER-SMITH?`
A.-No. I have never seen him.
Q.-Nor his brother?
A.-No.
The Commission adjourns.
SEVENTEENTH MEETING.
March 8th, 1884.
Present. The Honourable A. LISTER.
The Honourable F. B. JoHNSON.
LAI YAU is examined,-
Hon. A. LISTER.-Do you remember going up the Peak with Mr. BIRD one day?
A. Yes.
Q.-You told Mr. BIRD a story about Mr. BowDLER's house, did you not?
A.-No. I said nothing whatever about it. I never said anything about Mr. BOWDLER's house.
Q. Did you not admit to me in Mr. BIRD's Office that you had repeated the story, but that it was only the workmen's gossip?
A.-No, I never told you anything about it.
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