16,425. Did you ever hear it said to anybody else?-No.
<Adjourned>.
LERWICK: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1872.
JOHN HARRISON, examined.
16,426. What are you?-I am a merchant in Lerwick.
16,427. Have you been for a long time a partner of the firm of Harrison & Son?-Yes, since 1856.
16,428. I understand you have had large experience in the management of the Faroe fishing business?-Yes.
16,429. Have you also had some experience with regard to the ling fishing?-Not a great deal; but I have had some.
16,430. Has your firm had any connection with the management of land or property in Shetland?-None whatever.
16,431. Have you neither been tacksmen nor proprietors?-My father is a proprietor to a very small extent.