In closure No1 in Despatch
2.13 of
22 January 1883
from the Officer Administering
The Government of
Hong Kong
(Copy).
C. o.
3500
REC?
REC 28 FEB 87.
107
To the Honourable the Registrar
General for submission to His Excellency the Governor.
The gentry, merchants, inhabitants and others of Hong Kong
collectively present a petition
praying that gambling
and sly brothels
may be suppressed
in order that the Colony
may
be tranquillised. Petitioners
consider that gambling and sly brothels
are
the greatest