524. Do they supply you with goods also?-Yes.
525. Where is their store from which you get the goods?-There is their shop in town.
526. Do you come to Lerwick for them?-Yes.
527. Do you run an account there?-Sometimes we do, and sometimes not; but we have not much to do with Messrs. Hay on that footing.
528. You said that your reason for coming here and offering to give evidence to-day was, that you were afraid of young Mr. Bruce taking the fishing into his own hands?-Yes; that is the thing we find to be most oppressive, if it was coming to be the case.
529. Is it the general opinion in the country that he has undertaken to manage the fishings on his father's estates?-He addressed himself so in the note he gave us. He called himself general merchant and fish-curer.
530. Did he give you intimation of that one year at rent time?- Yes; that was last year.
531. But he has not yet taken the management of the fishing at Cunningsburgh?-No.
532. Has he fishing establishments elsewhere?-He has-at Dunrossness. He has taken all the tenants there into his own hands. The property, I daresay, is twice as large as Cunningsburgh.
533. Do you know from your own knowledge whether the tenants there are obliged to fish for him?-Yes; they are fishing to himself.