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Q. -Well, you have been more intimate with the younger brother, and pretty inti- mate with the elder?
A. Yes.
Q. You remember the Telegraph being started?
A. Yes, in D'Aguilar Street.
Q.-Well then you remember it being established up in your neighbourhood?
A. Yes.
Q.-When did you first begin communication with him about the Public Works Department?
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A. I have had no communication.
Q.—You don't mean to say you have never spoken to him about it?
A.-Yes.
Q. Do you really mean to say that?
A.—Oh, I am telling you the truth, except that we might speak in an off, hand way, as I would to any other stranger. I remember speaking to him once, I said, Why do you always keep writing in your paper so strongly against Mr. PRICE?" He said he had his own reasons for it. I said, "Oh you know best." I asked him, where he got his information from, and he said it was not my business. I simply asked. I would give no information.
Q.-Where was this?
A.-Outside, not in his place at all.
Q.—Where do you think he got his information?
A. Well, really I don't know whether I am right to say it.
Q.-Oh, yes.
A.-Well, the parties I accused him of were Mr. DANBY and Mr. LEIGH, because I knew the information could only come from people acquainted with the Public Works.
Q-And they had been in the Public Works Department?
A. Yes. He denied it, and I said it was none of my business, but I naturally felt annoyed at the writing.
Q. Do you mean to say you thought he had got hold of the real truth?
A. No, certainly not.
Q-Because he evidently knew something about the department?
A.-I am sure he did not know the real truth, because he wrote about things that
I know more about than any one else except my chief, and that is the Water-works, and that was what I felt annoyed about. He wrote about more water as not necessary, and I knew people in Hongkong did not get a quarter of their proper supply.
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