on behalf of the Colony, It has also resulted in an apparently successful solution of a very difficult and interesting problem.
Nevertheless having learned from a long and varied experience, the necessity of Caution in drawing inferences from very novel Experiments in question of Political Economy, and aware that too often hidden rocks on which the most promising schemes are finally wrecked can lie concealed for a long period I request your Lordship to regard my present natural anticipations as involving the possibility, though with diminishing probability of an issue the reverse of that which present appearances seem to justify.
5. I may however usefully point out that one Auxiliary of the Executive in attempting the suppression of gambling is yet wanting. The principle alluded to will be found in the 17th & 18th section, of the Registration Ordinance No 7 of 1866, which was introduced to make especially landlords finally liable for penalties incurred by tenants residing