143. How much of it do you generally take home after making your purchases?-I cannot say. 144. As a general thing, do you spend the half of it in the shop?- Yes; I spend the half of it. 145. Every week?-No; sometimes it is more, and sometimes less. 146. Have you ever been told that you ought to go to the shop?- No. 147. Or that you are expected to go there?-No. 148. Would you still be employed there in the same way although you went and bought your goods elsewhere?-They don't bid any of their people buy out of the shop. They just please themselves. Mr. Leask just gives the money, and he does not care where you buy from. Lerwick, January 1, 1872, Mrs. CHRISTINA WILLIAMSON, examined. 149. You are a widow, and live in the Widows' Asylum in Lerwick?-Yes. 150. Are you in the habit of knitting goods for sale?-Yes. 151. Do you knit for any particular merchant?-No; I knit for myself. 152. Do you buy your own wool?-Yes; I generally get wool, and get a woman to spin it for me. 153. Who is that woman?-Mrs. Irvine, Burn's Close. 154. Is that the mother of the last witness?-Yes. 155. Do you buy the wool from a farmer?-Yes. 156. And then you knit it for yourself, and take the shawls and sell them?-Yes. 157. Do you do that upon an order, or just upon chance?-Just upon chance. 158. Who do you generally sell to?-I have some unsold just now. The last one is unsold. 159. How long have you had it?-I have had that one lying for a twelvemonth. 160. Why don't you sell it?-Because I can't get money for it. 161. Who have you asked to buy it?-I have asked none lately. 162. Who have you asked at all?-I have asked no one in the town. 163. Why do you know you would not get money?-Because it is not the custom to give it, and therefore did not ask it. 164. Have you ever asked money for your shawls?-Yes; often. 165. From whom have you asked money?-I have asked it from the whole of the merchants in the town, but they are not used to giving money. 166. Who are the merchants in the town?-Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Tulloch, and Mr. Laurenson. 167. Are these all you remember?-Yes. 168. Have you sold any shawls to any of these gentlemen lately?- Yes; I sold one to Mr. Laurenson about three months ago. 169. What was the price put upon it?-30s. 170. Was that what you call fine knitting?-Yes. 171. How were you paid for it?-I got goods for it. 172. Did you get no money at all?-No. 173. Did you ask to get some of it in money?-No; I did not ask that. 174. Did you want to get the goods?-Yes; because the goods suited. 175. What goods did you get?-I got bread. 176. Does Mr. Laurenson sell bread in his shop?-Yes. 177. Was there an account run for that?-Yes. 178. What else did you?-Just all kinds of things I was using. 179. Was it all provisions that you got?-No; there was light and plenty of things. 180. Any clothes?-No clothes. 181. Was there any account due before you sold that shawl?-No.