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It were seriously attempted to put down gambling houses altogether the Executive would be obliged to record largely to the use of detectives. These detectives, from the necessity of the case, would be principally Chinese; and as licenses were increased so would the notices for bribing them increase." Frequently, in the search of a house the inmates would hear the constable with...
Enlarging the orders of corruption to a body of men who have proved untrustful in the past, to withhold such offers.
6. To further pursuance of this question, I now inclose a letter from the Superintendent of Police (Mr. Diane) which details the circumstances under which Governor Sir J. Pope Hennessy forbade interference with hawkers' stalls. I understand Your Lordship approves of the steps taken by Mr. March to uncover the stalls in cases where they have been proved to be a distinct nuisance, an obstruction. This question did not take the notice of Mr. Chadwick, who in his Report on the sanitary condition of the streets (Article 270) remarks...
* See also Article 65 of Mr. Chadwick's Report.