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the same, After the business was sold to Tang Kee in 1897, I severed my connection therewith, and with the examption that
Teng Kas looked to me as an English friend, and I did what I could for him, when he did, on various occasions,(not numerous so consult me, I had no connection with the business in any shape or form, I was naturally anxious, as Tang Kee bought the
business through me, thet he should succeed, and that he
should be in a position to employ an expert butcher like
Campbell, who knew the business thoroughly and tas a valuable
acquisition to the business end to Tang Kee, but who was not,
as far as his wages were concerned, prepared to trust a
Chinaman absolutely.
in all these four actions complained of, I realize
that I have acted foolishly, but not, as far as the Goverri-
The acts
complained
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ment is concerned, dishonestly, or remote from the spirit of
my latter of the 20th October 1909.
que isolved acts, done in every instance in the spirit of
good fellowship and good nature, and as far as the Tang Kee
Butchery is concerned, with the desire to its well being and
that of ita proprietor.
After assuming the proprietorship of the Hong Kong
Butchery, it would be natural for Tang Kee, I think, to
consult me in his early difficulties of runleation and how
to surmount them, and while taking no part in the business I
gave him the benefit of my experience, which has cost me ao
dearly.
The worry, ill health and pecuniary loss thet I have
suffered has well nich broken me down.
As my former partner in the Butchery business owed me ebaut $100 on our original agreement via the Butchery was started, when I had severed my connection therewith I brought en Action against him for that amount He pleaded the Statuts of limlletlomst he had been for some years absent from the #olony) and on his ples I tout my case and had to pay his
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