Why did you want to get people over from Shanghai?—They were all friends so. that I asked them to come over.
Safety in numbers, or in a multitude of counsellors there is wisdom; what was the ides of getting them over? Could not one person at Pootung have settled it?—They were all friends.
Was not the real reason that if the verdict went against you you could have some force to back up remoinstrance?—They are all respectable men.
Was not this row when'it commenced over a woman?—No, Mr. Phillips objected to some further questions Mr. Parkes way patting as they were simply meant to get the witness to contradict his previous xnswors.
Mr. Parkes retorted that the object of cross-examination was to confuse a witness and get him to mix up what be had said before. (Langhter.)
Mr. Phillips thought Mr. Parkes's admis~ sion rather strange,
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