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February. What other linseeds had you in the mill between 
those dates ? — A. Up to the 20th or the 16th ? 
Q. The 16th February?—^. Nothing but the 626 Riga lin- 
seed. 
Mr. Justice Blackbukn : The important date would surely be 
the 13th February, when the linseed-cake in question started. 
We do not care about anything that happened after that, at all 
events. 
Mr. Field : That is so ; the 13th is the important date. In 
what part of the warehouse are your linseeds stored ? — A. On 
two floors. 
Q. Are they all put together ? — A. No. 
Q. They are shot in heaps ? — A. In heaps. 
Q. As soon as the bags arrive ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Are the heaps kept separate ? — A. Yes, if the qualities are 
different. 
Q. Are they shot together ? — A. The Calcutta are kept sepa- 
rate from the Black Sea always. 
Q. Then the other cargoes that came in of the Calcutta, they 
would be shot together with the ex 'Labrador' ? — A. There was 
none came in from the 21st February. 
Mr. Justice Blackbuen : But I understood there was a consi- 
derable quantity of Calcutta linseed arrived on the 30th January ? 
— A. It was Black Sea. 
Mr. Justice BLACKBURN : Then I have taken it down wrong. 
I understood you to say it was Calcutta ? — A. Only 329 qrs. 
Q. Was it Calcutta or Black Sea ? — A. Black Sea. 
Q. Then I made a mistake. I thought you said there was 
more Calcutta arrived before the 13th f 'ebruary? — A. No, on 
the 21st that arrived — that is the one we are talking of. 
Mr. Field : Answer me this. Was there no Calcutta linseed 
between the arrival ex ' Labrador ' and the 13th February ? — A. 
None. 
Q. And the Black Sea linseed that arrived was 395 tons ? — 
A. 395 qrs. from the ' D. M. Parke.' 
Q. And that was shot together with the linseed ex ' Varina ' ? 
— A. Well, I thought so, and therefore I produce the invoices. 
Q. You have done so ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Just refer to the invoice ex ' Varina,' and tell me have 
you got the difference account which was rendered to you 
ex 'Varina'? — A. Yes, it is 1*58 (handing a document to Mr. 
Field). 
Q. I see the total purchase of linseed ex 'Varina' was 2266 
(jrs. — A. It was. 
Q. And the allowance was upon 1173 qrs. (handing the docu- 
ment to the Witness). Just look at the invoice, and tell me 
