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Q.—What did he pay for these Kwangse cattle ?
A. On the average $36 to $37.
Q.-And what did they weigh about?
A. They averaged about 200 catties each.
Q-They are much smaller than the Tien Chau cattle?
A. Yes.
Q-What price are you selling meat at now in the Market?
A.-At different prices-the best beef say 15 cents a pound; medium quality 11 to 12 cents a pound; and the worst--soup meat--about 11 cents a pound.
ago?
Q.-But that is the price of the medium sort?
A. But the medium sort has no bone in it.
Q. What was he selling the best beef at when he went into the Market six years
A.-The best beef was 11 to 12 cents; that was the highest price.
Q. What about soup beef?
A.—That was eight to niue cents a pound.
Q.--Now he has been paying just the same rent all these years-$35.75--what does he charge the people more for?
A.—Because I have to pay between $10 and $20 more per head than I used to pay for cattle?
Q. Why do you pay more?
A. Because there are fewer cattle.
Q-Fewer cattle?
A.-Well, a number of cattle them be only passed 60 per cent.
came at one time and when the doctor examined The rest were found suffering from disease and they had their tails cut off. If he likes to say the whole of the cattle are good he can do so.
Q.-How? Do you pay the Inspector for passing them?
A.As far as I am concerned I have never made him any offer.
Q. Did you never offer him anything at all?
A.-Not as far as I am concerned, If he likes he can pass the whole of them. In one week I had 21 cattle and 8 were rejected by him.
Q. What was the matter with them?
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A. He said there was something wrong with them, and I did not argue with him. Q. What was wrong with them?
A. He said he was paid by the Government to look after the cattle and he had either to pass or reject them.
Q.-Do a lot of cattle rejected by him ever get into the Slaughter-house, and get slaughtered if you just pay a little to the Slaughter-house man?
A.-No; they are not able to walk about when they are suffering fom sickness. Q-But you say the eight which were rejected were very good indeed.
were able to walk. They were slaughtered?
They
A.-No; they were sent back to Canton with their tails cut.
Q.-Do you mean to say their tails are cut off when they are alive and before they leave the Colony, and you have to send them out of the Colony with their tails cut off?
A. Yes.