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Q.--Therefore I say
these statements were not made to you in any confidence, cer- tainly if a man bargains for confidence you would be right to keep it, but if he tells you a thing over the dinner table or over the fire, I don't see he has any right to expect you are not going to make use of it in every possible way. Now let me put you a very common case. Suppose something you say had been said about a man's character. "Did you say so and so?” "Yes, I did." "Who told you?" "Well, I was told so by others, but I won't give you the names. Can you imagine a man putting himself in that position, a man who has passed on gossip? "Yes, I have heard it from certain people, but I won't say who they are." I think such a man would find himself in a, very uncomfortable position.
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A.-Well, I certainly won't give their names without their permission, and I went to-day expressly to see them myself, and they declined to give me their permission.
Hon. A. LISTER.--Very well, we have nothing more to say.
Mr. E. ROSE is recalled,-
Q.-The CHAIRMAN.--How long have you been in the Surveyor General's Depart-
ment?
A.-I joined in 1865.
Q.-So you have been nearly twenty years?
A.-In the Colony. When I first joined the service, I joined the Gaol Department.
Q. And the Surveyor General's?
A.-In 1865.
Q.--And have you been in it ever since?
A.-No; I have been out of it eight years.
Q. And how long have you recently been in it?
A. Four years next March.
Q. How long have you known Mr. FRASER-SMITH?
A.---Ever since he came to this Colony. When he arrived from England he stop-
ped in the Oriental Hotel.
Q.-How many years ago is that?.
A.-I think it was in 1876.
Q.-Then you are a very intimate friend of Mr. FRASER-SMITH?
A.-No, not very intimate, except meeting him every day while in the Hotel, but since then I have been more intimate with the younger brother.
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