Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - A Dispute at Yokohama -  1889 . . .

To the Court - In giving my opinion about the meaning of the word costs, I was guided by the fact that I have had to pay myself on more than one occasion.

Gong Zee deponed - I am a godown man employed by Jardine, Matheson & Co., and frequently weigh out cargoes from ships. I weighed the coke from the Brynhilda. Two sets of scales were used the first day, of which I had one. One of the officers of the ship was watching the weighing. I had a book and entered the weights myself.

Mr. Lowder admitted that the result of the weighing showed 37 tons short.

Witness said the weighing was carefully done.

Cross-examined - A hundred and twelve pounds nett of coke was weighed at one time. The baskets weighed together eight pounds, three being put on the scales each time. I was there for two days on board the ship. On the first day I weighed 3,600 baskets, or 60 tons; on the second day 3,900 baskets or 65 tons. There are twenty hundred weights in a ton, and 112 lbs. in each hundred weight. I deducted the weight of the baskets at each weighing. The captain never told me that we were putting too much on scales.

Ah In, godown man employed by Jardine, Matheson & Co., assisted in weighing the coal. He was there on the 9th. The weighing was done carefully. He weighed the coal into the godown and was as careful then as he was in weighing the coke on board ship.

Sow Hen, another employé of Jardine, Matheson & Co., was present for three days at the weighing of the coke. It was carefully done.

Adjourned till to-morrow (Wednesday) at 10.15 a.m.