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A.-Every facility has been given to them.
432. And every effort made by the Company to put it down?
A. Yes.
433.-You have a suspicion that many of the officers have connived at this smuggling?
A.-We have a suspicion.
434. And have they all been warned?
A.-Yes.
435. And they would be dismissed if discovered?
A. Yes.
436.-Is there anything else you know with regard to smuggling?
A.-Nothing occurs to me.
Mr. JAMES CLERIHEW examined:--
437. You are employed as an Inspector of the Sanitary Department of the Colony?
A. Yes.
438.-Were you ever employed in the Canton Revenue Service?
A. Yes.
439.-In what capacity?
A.-As quartermaster in the P'ingchauhoi, and afterwards in the Revenue Cruiser Kwashán.
440.-How long were you employed in the P'ingchauhoi.
A.-Six or seven months.
441.-And in the other one?
A.-Altogether I was in the service close on three years.
442.-Do you remember what years?
A.-1878 to 1880.
443.-When you were examined here before you stated that many seizures of opium, salt. saltpetre, arms and ammunition, and rice coming into the Colony were made?
A. Yes.
444. And that you had often conflicts with these junks and several times people had been killed on both sides?
A. Yes.
445.-Can you tell us more particularly any occasions in which fights took place? Can you give any instance?
A.-Just shortly after I joined the Kwashan I had a pretty good heavy fight in the Kapshuimún Pass, in Pirates Bay, with a saltpetre junk and salt junk together.
446.-Was there any one killed at that time?
A.-There were four killed on both sides.
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