of the matters included ; _ I mean the cit connection of Mr Caldwell as Crown Tenant
and
6 payer of Crown Kent, and as < Landlord and recipient of Rack Rent, with the Chinese Brothel 1:48, he
which, as Registrar General, he has in the name of the Crown, granted a
license under the late Brothels
a passed
Ordinance, - ( a measure which,
(a
through Council a few days before
my
announced return prom sick leave), Keis Excellency again
and again declured in Council his disbelief of that charge when I first mentioned
I it, and, fur from inquiring into it ridiculed it as à priori impossible. Why
it should have been so considered
I cannot tell ; not to speak of his
ther antecedents enumerated in
my
of the 13th instant, Mr.
letter Caldwell's cartier
career as a commer
Sailor
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sailer at Singapore, of evil repute ;
well known to this Government through our late Governor Fir George Benham formerly the Resident at Singapore;
and a man who once owned three unlicensed Hong Kong Brothels at a
time, and whose Chinese Fisters in law
My
blood or usage ) were keeping. others in 1856-7 – could scarcely be
above sus
suspicion. The
The Acting Colonial Secretary, however, having as he
said "professionally " advised and
months back in the
assisted a
few
Composition of Mr Caldwell's debts, and the assignment of his property-
book the same line with the Governor, and affirmed that Mr Ouidwell had no interest whatever.
in
any
land or houses here . /
I had not persisted
in my
statement, in the face of those
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