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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JULY, 1881.
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8. Q. Have you been abroad before ?
A. No, I never was away from home.
9. Q. When did you arrive in Hongkong?
A. On the 24th day of the 3rd moon (25th March, 1881), by steamer from Macao.
10. Q. Who paid for your passage to Hongkong?
A. I paid half a dollar for the
passage,
11. Q. What baggage had you, and what amount of money, on arrival ?
A. I had no baggage, except 3 jackets and 3 pairs of trousers, no box, a quilt, a curtain, but no
money at all. I brought no money to Hongkong.
12. Q. With whom did you come to Hongkong?
A. With CHEUNG CHIU-CH'ÁN, a man of the Wo-chéung shop.
13. Q. Where are the persons now in whose company you came to Hongkong?
A. Here.
14. Q. Where did you stay in Hongkong?
A. At the Wo-chéung shop.
15. Q. Where do you intend to go to ? and with whom are you going?
A. To Australia, with CHEUNG CHIU-CH'ÁN.
16. Q. What work and wages do you expect to get in Australia ?
A. I shall do vegetable gardening work. CHEUNG CHIU-CH'ÁN did not tell me what wages I
would get.
17. Q. What outfit have you now, and how did you procure it?
A. The same as before.
18. Q. What were your expenses in Hongkong, and what sum have you left now!
A. Over 4 taels. I have no money left.
19. Q. Have
A. Yes.
you a passage ticket?
20. Q. When, from whom, and where did you obtain it ?
A. This morning. K'UNG-HOK of the Wo-chéung (Wo-hing) shop. [The ticket being examined was found to be stamped by the Hang-t'ai-on shop, from which the Wo-chéung (Wo-hing) shop obtained it.]
21. Q. What sum did you pay for it and to whom?
A. I paid for it 30 taels, 9 mace and 6 candareens, to K'UNG HOK.
22. Q. What sum will you have to repay after arrival in Australia?
A. By and bye I must repay it to CHUNG TAI-K'AN, and he will pay K'UNG HOк. The money was given by CHUNG TAI-K'AN. He lives at Nám-hap, a village 2 miles distant from Wong- ch'ung, my native village.
23. Q. At what rate of interest and to whom will you have to repay it, or is the amount to be deducted
from your wages by your future employer?
A. For each tael I must repay two taels.
24. Q. Did you make any verbal or written agreement regarding repayment of outfit and
A. There is a written agreement in form of a card.
passage ?
[NOTE. This witness was exceedingly difficult to understand, and each question had to be put to him several times, as he spoke and understood but the San-úi dialect. But what is given above was clearly stated by him.]
E. J. EITEL,
MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.
Refer all these papers to the Emigration Officer, who will make his observations upon them when he has finished his own examination, made by him with a view of ascertaining whether all the emi- grants in the list he laid before me are really free and under no contract of service whatever.
26th April, 1881.
J. POPE HENNESSY,
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