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suppose you mean you don't think there is any one in the Colonial Secretary's
Office who would do it?
A. Yes.
Mr. W. G. PHILLIPS is examined,-
Q. Hon. A. LISTER.-How long have you been in the Colonial Secretary's Office?
A.-About six months.
Q.-Then you were not there in January or February of last year?
A.-No.
-Have you formed any idea how that information got into the hands of the Hongkong Telegraph? I dare say you have seen something about it?
A.-No, I have no idea.
Q. Do you know anything about it yourself; have you any knowledge of your own about it?
A.-No.
Q.-If you were told a document had got into the hands of the newspapers, say a document which had come in to-day, could you form any idea how it had been done?
A.-No, I don't think I could.
Mr. J. M. GUTIERREZ, clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, is examined,—-
Q.-Hon. A. LISTER.-How long have you been in the Colonial Secretary's Office?
A.-About two and a half years.
Q.-You were there in January last then?
A. Yes.
Q.-That was when C.S.O. 84
A. Yes, I quite remember.
Q.-Well have you formed any idea how that was done, how the Hongkong Telegraph got that information?
A.-No, I copied the letter; that is all. I know nothing else.
Q.-You copied a letter telling him his paper was not required?
A.--Yes.
Q-But it was not that one, but C.S.O. 84, the letter from Mr. PRICE.
A.-I don't know anything about that.
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