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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

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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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