Q: Were pit lamps used in any other portion of the mine?

A: In No.4 Incline, naked lights were used.

Q: What was the condition of the mine the day of the explosion, wet or dry?

A: It was wet around that section.

Mr, Pooley: - Are both those lamps "A" and "C" locked? or were locked when found?

A: They were both locked when found.

Q: Was that hole in the roof that was referred to by Mr. Potts, there before or after the explosion? Was that big hole there before or after the explosion?

A: Well, the one that he mentioned about the gas being in, and reported in the report book, was there before the explosion.

Q: How big a hole was that?

A: Probably about four feet wide and may be two and a half to 3 feet high.

Q: In a dangerous place?

A: No.

Q: The roof after the explosion was about 25 feet high?

A: Yes, but not in the same place.

Mr. Hall:- Were those 7 Chinese burnt sometime ago, burnt on this same level?

A: What do you mean about "some time ago"?

Q: About six months ago?

A: I couldn't tell.

Mr. Matthews:- They were burnt on the north side.

Mr. Hall:- Are you altogether sure that that hole was four feet wide?

A: Is is there to-day to be seen, and it is no higher now than it was then.

Q: Don't you think the crack extended quote a distance above that?

A: That I couldn't tell.

Q: You could see it was larger?

A: I couldn't say. If that cave was broke further up or not, it is a very shaly roof, and the slips may be in this direction.

Q: It might be larger and you not know?

A: Yes.

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