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3.
It
may be roughly said that from the foundation of the Colony every means have been adopted and many stringent Ordinances have been passed with the object of suppressing or, if possible, of eradicating this vice, but the fond hopes indulged in by those who promoted this legislation have never to any great extent been fulfilled. This is not to be wondered at when it is remembered that the love of gambling is inherent in the Chinese.
4.
It is true that gambling has been temporarily suppressed in one quarter, but it has never failed to reappear in an aggravated form in another, and though it has hitherto within recent years been impossible to prove that it has been destructive to the morale of the