expect that an attempt will shortly be made to sell in the Colony the tickets of a lottery shop
which is established at Macao.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) Cecil C. Smith,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
(True Copy)
(Signed)
Acting Colonial Secretary
Copy Duplicate Confidential
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Police Department,
18th March, 1872.
I have the honor to report
Sir,
that since my last letter
no trace of any
Public Gaming
House has been discovered. Suspicion
was
directed against five houses
pointed out by a gentleman
connected with the press but
they
were
found not to be gaming
houses.
His Excellency
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, K.C.M.G.,
Governor