2418. Is there any one else you wish to mention?-There are many cases in which I paid cash for hosiery articles, although I could not name the persons just now. They were people whose faces I knew, but I cannot recollect their names. 2419. Were these cases in which you paid the whole value in cash?-Yes. 2420. Did these transactions enter your books?-No; the cash was just paid for them at the time. 2421. Do you take no notice of the cash paid out in [Page 51] that way?-Not generally. I don't that there is any special entry in the cash-book showing what it had been paid for. 2422. Don't you take a receipt from such persons?-No, I never did. 2423. Then how do you know the price at which to sell these shawls?-Because I put the prices on the shawls myself. 2424. Do you mark them all at the time?-Yes. 2425. And you swear that no entry of such a payment enters into any of your books?-I swear that, to my knowledge, there is no memorandum taken of a cash transaction carried through in that way. With regard Elizabeth Gifford, I may explain that I gave her a receipt for a shawl to be paid for in cash, and she came to my shop some time afterwards and got the cash. 2426. Then that cash entered your book?-Yes. Here is the entry [produces line-book]: 'C. M. 95. 1. 11.71. Paid in cash, 80s. £4.' 2427. How do you know that is the transaction?-Because it is the only transaction of the kind that is in the book, it is the only transaction in which £4 was paid in cash. 2428. Was that entry all made at one time?-The first part of it was made when she brought the shawl. The date when she got the line is not here. 2429. Then it was on 1st November 1871 that she got the money?-Yes. 2430. The entry made at first was 'C.M. 95. 80s. £4?'-Yes. 2431. And the figures '1. 11. 71,' and the words 'paid in cash,' were inserted when the money was given?-Yes 2432. There is no entry of the date of the issuing of the line at first?-No; the book was not being dated then. 2433. When did the book begin to be dated?-We have the date on the line itself, and therefore it is quite sufficient to enter the numbers of the lines in the book. 2434. But when did the book begin to be dated?-On 30th October. 2435. Then it must have been a few days before 30th October when the line was first given out?-Yes. 2436. To come back to Jemima Sandison's book the total amount supplied to her was £3, 5s. 31/2d. in period of thirteen months, and there was a balance of 16s. to begin with. The amount that appears to have been paid in cash during that time is 3s. 6d. on all these transaction: is that so?-It may be; but I have ready explained that the entries in the book do not represent all the cash which she got from me. 2437. She also appears to have got tea on thirty-seven different occasions, in quantities of 8d., 9d., and 10d. worth at the time?- Yes; that would be a quarter of a pound.