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Q. How long have you been connected with the Public Works Department?
A. This time it will be four years in March.
Q.-Altogether? I think I remember seeing you in the Public Works Department
as much as 18 years ago.
A.--In 1865 I joined first.
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Q. And since that you have been out of the department? How many times?
A. Only once, from 1872 to 1880.
Q.-Then you were eight years out of it?
A. Yes.
Q. And during that time you were trying to better yourself?
A.-I was in private business.
Q.-During that time you kept the Oriental Hotel?
A. About six years.
Q. And the other two years?
A.-I was in business with a man of the name of HANDLEY, plumber and gas fitter.
Q.-Then altogether you have had about ten years' service in the Survey Depart-
ment?
A. Yes.
Q.-Have you been connected with the Water-works all the time?
A.-The whole of the time.
Q.-I think, if I remember rightly when I first saw you, you were laying the covering stones on a drain just by what is called Parsee Point?
A.-No, I never had any connection with any drainage, roads, or streets, except making good where water mains might have run through.
Q.-Well, there was a stop-cock put down there for the Sailor's Home?
A. Then that would be my business. Everything in connection with the Water-
works.
Q.--You gave evidence, I think, in the late trial, did you not?
A. Yes; in fact I disputed the accusation that was laid against me. I did not give any other evidence.
Q.-
-I suppose
it would not be too much to say, I think no one in the Colony believed your statement at that time. I suppose you are aware of that?
A.—I really never heard of it, Sir.
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