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Q-Never heard of it?
A. No.
Q.--Did you ever have any communication with Mr. FRASER-SMITH by order of Sir JOHN HENNESSY?
A. Yes.
Q.--Did you supply him with any papers or documents?
A.-No; the only communication I had with him was in connection with the first publication of his Directory. I was asked to revise the list of Officers and the index to the Ordinances.
Q.
-You have never supplied any papers from this office or any subject whatever to the Telegraph by direction of Sir JOHN HENNESSY?
A.-No; not to my recollection.
Q-Well, but surely you would remember.
A. Well, if I had been ordered I think I should have recollected it.
Q. How many times do you think you had communication?
A.-I think only about the Directory. I don't remember having had any.commu- nication with him on any other matter.
Q.-Have you ever supplied Mr. FRASER-SMITH with documents without orders?
A.-No.
Q-Have you supplied him with information on the affairs of the Colony?
A.-No.
Hon. A. LISTER.--I have ascertained that information about Captain THOMSETT was supplied to SMITH by Dr. EITEL at Sir JOHN HENNESSY'S request, by his direction. Dr. EITEL has told me he himself was ordered by Governor HENNESSY to take this
information.
know.
Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-I heard it had been supplied, and I thought Mr. SETH might
WITNESS.-No.
Hon. A. LISTER.-Dr. EITEL cannot afford any information about this other matter.
(The Honourable the Attorney General, who has been absent up to this time, here takes the chair).
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Hon. J. M. PRICE, Surveyor General, is examined,—
Hon. A. LISTER.-I think we have now pretty much exhausted all the evidence there is any use in taking, and we want you to be kind enough, if you please, Mr. PRICE, to give us your opinion on the general situation, as we seem to have established it, to be, and first of all as to the foremen that are occupied in looking after works. The evidence would seem to point to this, that the best foremen in the Colony are those.
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