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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2c.
8. Q. Have you been abroad before?
A. I never was in Hongkong before, nor in Australia.
9. Q. When did you arrive in Hongkong?
A. On the 22nd day of the 3rd moon (21st March, 1881), by the
10. Q. Who paid for your passage to Hongkong?
A. Half a dollar was paid.
11. Q. What baggage had you, and what amount of money, on arrival?
1881.
-tò passage boat.
A. I had only 5 or 6 suits, a quilt, a waistcoat, a pillow-box containing 21 sovereigns and 100 cash. I have no other money. The sovereigns are now in the On-hing shop, in charge of the accountant. I shall get them back. The 100 cash are in my pocket.
12. Q. With whom did you come to Hongkong?
A. WONG FUN-KÁM came with me.
for me.
He had been in Australia before.
He got the passage
ticket
13. Q. Where are the persons now in whose company you came to Hongkong ?
A. Downstairs.
14. Q. Where did you stay in Hongkong?
A. At the On-hing shop. I bought my own food.
15. Q. Where do you intend to go to? and with whom are you going?
A. Sydney, with WONG FUN-KÁM.
16. Q. What work and wages do you expect to get in Australia?
A. I shall dig for gold, and if I earn money I shall send it back.
17. Q. What outfit have you now, and how did you procure it?
A. Same as before.
18. Q. What were your expenses in Hongkong, and what sum have
A. 3-4 taels, besides the passage money of half a dollar,
19. Q. Have
you
a passage
ticket?
A. Yes.
20. Q. When, from whom, and where did you obtain it?
you
left now?
A. To-day. LI A-LAM, of the On-hing shop, gave it to me at the On-hing shop.
21. Q. What sum did you pay for it and to whom?
A. $42. To LI LAM, on the 23rd or 24th of the 3rd moon (22nd or 23rd March, 1881).
22. Q. What sum
will A. I do not know. money.
have to after arrival in Australia? you
repay I have not been there before. I have capital myself. I need not repay any
He is going with me to Australia. FÚN KÁM told me to go to the Onthing shop.
EVIDENCE OF WONG TIN-K'IÚ.
1. Q, What is your surname, name and by-name
A. WONG TIN-K'IÚ.
2. Q. What is your age?
A. 26 years.
3. Q. Who and where are your parents or guardians ?
A. Wong-ch'ung, in San-úi district. My parents are poor.
4. Q. Where is your home, how long have you been there, and when did you leave it?
A. I have always been at home.
5. Q. What was your occupation hitherto, what your monthly earnings, and where were you so
occupied ?
A. I worked in the fields, and earned not more than enough to eat.
6. Q. Can you read or write?
A. I cannot read or write. My parents had no money to send me to school. My parents have
no money at all.
7. Q. Have you any friends or relatives here in Hongkong?
A. No, but at the Wo-ch'éung shop somebody knows me.
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