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A.-I can't remember now.
Q.-Was it spoken of quite frequently and quite as a common thing or only once in a way?
A. Once in a way.
Mr. Humphreys.-If a thing like that came to your knowledge as you say in the way of a joke would you not consider it your duty to report it to the Principal Civil Medical Officer ?
A.--No.
The Chairman.-So far as you know, do you believe there was any truth in the report?
A. I could not say there was truth in it because if I thought for a moment that I could have got to the bottom of it I most certainly would have reported the thing.
Q. Do you think it would be true?
A.-Personally, I think it might be true.
Q. But you had no grounds?
A. I had no grounds for my statement at all.
Q.--Setting aside the Departmental joke, did anyone ever tell you that Lo Man Kai had a share in the business ?
A.-No.
Q.-No European and no Chinaman?
A.-No.
Q.-I understand that when Dr. Macfarlane asked you where you got your informa- tion from you said you could not tell him or you did not wish to tell him. Did you say so?
A.-No.
Q.-Dr. Macfarlane did not tell us himself; we had it from another source?
A.—I did not say so.
262.-HO TSOI, Master of Ping Chan, stated:-
I made Lo Man Kai's acquaintance when he was Interpreter at Sai Ying Pun Police Station. Nominally, I am the God-father to Lo's daughter, but no presents had been made to make me to be the God-father. I have known him nearly 10 years.
He came to see me in my shop 3 or 4 times a month and I met him 5 or 6 times a month at dinners. I dismissed 5 employees on account of the dullness of business at the end of the last moon. On our first acquaintance, I borrowed from him money for my business and we have since been borrowing and lending from and to each other. In Kwong Tai Loong he and I are part- ners. Lo Man Kai put in $100 in the name of Lo Kion On. This business, makes
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