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published in the Gazette of the 16th April (rent, herewith). In that address be uses the following language. "Guarding myself individually from
concurrence in (indeed,
گھوڑ
expressing.
having dissented from) some of
ANA DANCES
adopted,
the
I am bound to
"state what I think all will concur in,
that on the results - the increased
"
Deousity to life and property, and
great decrease of Crime to which
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"I have elsewhere referred, the extent
of which is confirmed by the Statistics
" which Your Excellency has this
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"
day laid on the Table,
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Your & xcellency's Government.
well be
congratulated.
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may
اوران
322
It is therefore with no little surprise that since the departure of.. Six Richard MacDonnell, I hear -the Chief Justice, Session after Session, denouncing from the Bench the Volicy of the Hong Kong Government in: --- relation to the Licensing of Gaming
Hauses. As
enclose
an instance I beg to Report of some of the
remarks which he made in Court!
when passing
posing Sentence upon the
Japanese Soterloo, who is the
subject of his present letter:
I jull
From the Chince Mail of November 25°
1870.
How strange it must appear, {
His Lordship said, to the people of Japan. a country where gambling is prohibited and suppressod, to know that it is licensed in this, a British Colony. It was greatly to be regretted that the keepers of these Elysiums had not refused admittance tr this man on account of his having so much of the appearance of a European. Gambling is put down and kept down in Japan. By the Chinese authorities, in every province where there is an honest governor, it is put down. In Singapore it is put down. In England it is put down and reduced within extremely narrow limits by four Acts of Parliament, which His Lordship regretted were not proclaimed as law within this Colony. Means to repress gambling in this Colony had been untried, though not unsuggested.
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