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on a shooting expedition. We were coming up this side of Dimock's from here. Ido not know how the gun was loaded. All those things were taken out, and only one barrel was loaded. By Mr. Jellicoe.] We did not get a shot. It was not our fault, but the fault of the game. Sir Harry Albert Atkinson recalled : As a member of the Executive I received a statement from the prisoner Chemis addressed to the Governor. On Friday morning last the papers were laid on the table of the House. Mrs. Chemis had been previously examined and cross-examined in this Court. It was latish on Friday night. I put them on the table of the House. I would think it very unlikely that Mrs. Chemis, or any other person on her behalf, would be made aware of the contents of the papers before they were laid on the table of the House. [Bemanded till Wednesday, the 28th August.] Frederick Greaves sworn, saith : I reside at Kaiwarra. lam Mrs. Chemis's brother-in-law. I know Louis Chemis, and have for the last three years visited his property shooting. I generally go shooting there on Sunday; sometimes of an evening. I know the room occupied by Chemis and his wife as a bedroom. I have not got a gun of my own. I used Chemis's gun from a rack over the door in his bedroom. I remember Sunday, the 19th of May, last. I went out shooting on Chemis's property that day. I took the gun from the same room and same place. I took also a powder-flask, shot-pouch, caps, and two or three wads from the same room. I obtained them from the right-hand top drawer in the bedroom. The drawer was locked when I went to it. I obtained the key from the left-hand top drawer of the same room, and I afterwards locked the drawer and put the key back again in the left-hand drawer in the usual place. That day Ido not think I was away more than a quarter of an hour. On my return, I returned the articles back again in the same place I got them from. The powder-flask produced is the same. I took the caps from the cap-box. I would know the box again. I believe that produced is the same box. I took the wads from a tin-box smaller than the cap-box in a box similar to that produced. Those wads produced are similar to those I took from it. I saw in the drawer, when I took and returned those articles and a a coil of fuse, a revolver, a stiletto, revolver-cartridges, dynamite-caps, cocoatin containing powder, and another cocoa-tin were in the drawer. I did not open the cocoa tin. I shook the one with the powder, also the other. It sounded like money when I shook it, but I did not open it. I did not look so particular this time. There was a wad-cutter in the drawer. I saw it first a few nights after Easter. Chemis showed it to me, and showed me how to use it. By the Court.] I had seen a wad-cutter before. By Mr Jellicoe.] He said, "It is very easy to use them ; all you have to do is to hit it with a hammer." I was at Chemis's house on Sunday, the 2nd June. I went there, as near as I can say, between 10 and 11 o'clock. I saw Chemis first; he was cutting mangolds. I went into the kitchen. I saw four quail. I was not there much longer than three quarters of an hour altogether as near as I can think. I was there on the evening of the arrest (sth June). The shot, when I used the pouch, were greased. It was in the evening, between 6 and 7 o'clock, on the sth June when I was there. Mrs. Chemis and the children were there. She showed me all round the house, and how the police had upset the place. By the Court.] In turning over almost everything in the house, I should think. By Mr Jellicoe.~] I went to the right-hand top drawer. My attention was called to what it contained. I saw then the powder-flask, the wad-punch, empty cocoa-tin, a tin-box containing powder, in cocoa-tin a coil of fuse, some gun-caps (a box), some dynamite-caps in a box, a piece of indiarubber, some wads in a box, some revolver-cartridges, and some ointment. Some days afterwards I had a conversation with Mrs. Chemis. It had reference to paper. Mr. Bunny had spoken to her about it. I told her she ought to take Mr. Bunny those wads and wad-cutter. By Mr. Bell.] I work at Kaiwarra tanyard. The shot-pouch I saw in the drawer was an ordinary straight one that you put in your pocket, not one of those that go round the shoulder. I heard about another shot-pouch at Kaiwarra this morning. I cannot say that I did not hear of it before, but I did not hear the description of it before. I have spoken to Dowd recently about another shot-pouch, and I and Dowd went together to see James Gibson. Gibson has been subpoenaed here. It is not a fact that the pouch found by Lowes was in the possession of Chemis on the 31st May, not to my knowledge. I do not know that Gibson lent that pouch to Chemis, but Gibson told me that he did. He told me some time before the shooting-season. The shootingseason began some time in March. It was long before Chemis was arrested for the murder Gibson told me he lent it to Chemis. Gibson told me he had left a shot-pouch at Chemis's. I know who was the owner of the shot-pouch Gibson left at Chemis's ; it was Hodges. Hodges lives at Kaiwarra. He is a sick man. They call him Bonny Hodges. I did not see Hodges' shot-pouch at Chemis's house. I did not see it, to my knowledge, at Chemis's house after Gibson told me he had left it there. Ido not know that Hodges' shot-pouch was at Chemis's house on 31st May. I have spoken to Dowd about the shot-pouch of Hodges in the last day or two. Monday evening last Dowd and I went to Gibson's ; and on Monday evening I had not seen the knife found by Lowes. I did not ask Gibson about the knife. I did not hear Dowd ask Gibson about the knife. We only spoke about the shot-pouch, that is all. I have not seen Hodges's pouch. I have only seen two shot-pouches in the last three years—one was Chemis's and the other was one that goes round the shoulder, at Ngahauranga. I have spoken to Mrs. Chemis about the shot-pouch in the last day or two. I did not speak to her about the knife. I made an affidavit to try and save Chemis's life. I saw Mr. Jellicoe first. I signed the affidavit. I never saw Hodges's shot-pouch to my knowledge. I cannot swear Chemis and Gibson went out pig-shooting. I know Chemis went. I have seen him out with the gun, but I never saw him with a knife. I saw him once out shooting. He might have had a knife, but I never saw it. I know the knives they use in the tanyards. I never saw one of the knives that had been used at the tanyards at Chemis's house. I have had the knife found by Lowes described. It was not described to mo as a tanyard knife by Lowes himself. Lowes does not work