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Q. What did he say he wanted
you for?
A.-He said he could not explain to me properly, and he wanted me to go to his office where the Chinese could explain it properly, but I thought it was no use going, and I did not go.
Q.-Did he call you as a witness in Court?
A. Yes, I was examined, and I said what I knew.
Q. Do you know Mr. Rose?
A. Yes.
Q. Did not Mr. Rose send for you first, before Mr. FRASER-SMITH sent for you? A. No. I always saw Mr. Rose when I came to the office, and he gave me
work sometimes.
Q. What do you mean by giving you work?
A.-Small jobs, mending the water pipes.
Q.-But have you not talked to him sometimes about the squeezes?
A. I have not.
Q.-Have you ever been squeezed?
A.-No, no one has ever squeezed me.
Q.--Have you ever given handsome presents to any of the Overseers?
A.-No, I have not.
Q.-You say you get your bills made out by people outside. How much do you pay for that?
A.-Sometimes I give money and sometimes not.
Q. Why don't you get people in the office to make them out for you?
A. Sometimes one or two of my bills were made out in the office.
Q.-Why don't you always have them made out there?
A.-I don't get any one individual to do all the bills for me.
Q-But would it not be more convenient to have one individual?
A. Sometimes a man might be engaged, and then you could not get him to make
the bills for
you.
Q-But he would understand better how to make them out.
A.—I give a Chinese bill and he has simply to translate into English.
Q.-Yes; but why don't you employ some one in the office to do them all?
A.-Which clerks have time to do it? They have got their own business to
attend to. Sometimes I have left a bill and he did not make it out for two or three
days afterwards. It is far better to have several persons to make bills out than one only.
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