Have you any explanations to offer ? A. I was not aware that the Provincial Treasurer held a considerable balance, or any balance at all, of Education funds in his hands on 10th March, when he applied for L6OO on account. Had I been bo aware, the warrant would not have been given. The Treasurer, whenever he re quired money on account of Education, rent a slip of paper into my room s'.ating that the sum named thereon wai re quired by him a* Treasurer of Edu cation Board, and, as a matter of course, I invariably signed the -war rant without further enquiry (aa Mr Logan, my clerk, cau testify). The fact of his having advanced to me a cum on the same day (if it was to), is a singnlar coincidence, but nothing more. It appears, however, from my cheque hook, that there was no such cheque drawn by me then, but that it was three weeks previous to that date; and here I may remark, that, during the months of February, March, and April, while I had a quarrel with the Union Bank, I had ceased drawing cheqties for presentation, they were merely vouchers.
