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from the HongKong Butchery Company before he approache the matter, and it was to enable him to pbtajn his full opTMmiasion from the americen butter merchants, which he had before enjoyed, that I reluctantly consented to sign him an order covering the order he had alrezdy obtained.

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Ever after I have regretted the transaction, and at the time I signed it, I had not fully realised the false position in which I placed myself.

With rference to the fourth statement:- This chit was

a request to give the Butchery Company, in which I formerly had an interest, a pess book to obtain ice, as the Ice Company had refused to give Tang Kee one, because they did not know hia, The Ice Dompery la & British Company, and without a leiter from some responsible person or European, I doubt whether credit would be given to any Chinaman unless he was well known, for to give a pass book, means to give creait, the chit simply acted as on intréduction for Tang Kee to the Ice Company It Involved me in no personal liability with the Ice Compeny, and marely meant to imply that Tang Kee was a person to whor credit mi ht be given.

The four scue complained of, are each in themselves solitery yet all arrivin' out of my former connection with the

Bongilong Butchery and I respectfully beg to submit that not

in neuse me to have done

on, or any can

contrary to th:

be

so construed se

expression set forth in baragraph 7 of my

letter to the colonial Secretary dated the 20th October 1909. that 19, *I have at no time rendered any assistance of eny

kind in the carrying on of trade or business in this Qalony

or elsewhere".

and

When I was connected with the HongKong Butchery at the

commencement of Lts business in 1895, I rose at 3.30 a. n.

rent to the market and worked for the Butchery until 7 s. m.

while much of my spare time was given up to the business of

the