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in the City of Victoria, transferable.
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It is not at all difficult, therefore, for persons belonging to the criminal classes to obtain possession of night passes, in which case the Police cannot interfere with them, unless they are found committing a crime in the act of ...
It may also be remembered that at the time of the riots in October, 1884, the Government thought it necessary to take possession of a large quantity of arms exposed for sale in the shops of Chinese in the part of the City, where the most turbulent characters reside, and it came out afterwards that a much larger quantity in the possession of Chinese wholesale dealers had been placed by them for safety in the stores of some large European Firms, as they shared the apprehensions entertained by the Government that they might perhaps be seized by the