9187. What was the amount of your account at Hay & Co.'s?-I don't remember in that year.
9188. Here [showing] is your account for 1871 when you had a balance of £19, 2s. to receive: do you remember the amount of your account, that year?-I do not.
9189. How much ready cash did you bring home with you when you had settled on 25th July?-I am not quite sure, but I think it was about £16.
9190. Then your account for the season would only be about £3?- That was all.
9191. Would that be the whole of the supplies you got for your family that year?-Yes; it was short voyage.
9192. Had you also a short and a very successful voyage last year?-Yes.
9193. You have not got your final payment of oil-money for 1871?-No.
9194. Have you got it for 1870?-Yes.
9195. Was that settled for before the superintendent, Mr. Gatherer?-Yes, it was paid at the custom-house. I think I got an account of wages for that too, but I could not say exactly. The oil on which the money was paid was 42 tons. The first payment of oil-money was upon 150 tons, making 192 altogether.
9196. Was the whole of that paid at the custom house?-Yes.