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on Wednesday & ordered them out instant- -ly. I do not know how the four Chinamen who have been killed got into the mine. I cannot sug- -gest any reason why Dixon went be- -hind the fences. I believe the tools had been brought away previously. Dixon has a deneral Supervision over the whole of the Mine under ground.

Robert Dunsmuir

Taken before me at Wellington this 25tth day of April 1879

Rames R Spalding

Coroner