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with as little delay as possible. Dn. any Case I trust it will be within my power to dismiss them from the Police Force, as there can be no doubt the existence of gambling was due to their connivance with the Keeper of the Gambling house and that if they had performed their duty, no opportunity of corruption would have arisen. In the meantime, steps have been taken to fill the vacancies in the Chinese Detective staff and that caused by the imprisonment for six months of Inspector Witchell, who has been dismissed from the Police Force. The Captain Superintendent of Police has been called upon to furnish a report as to what proposals he has to make in order to prevent in future, so far as possible, the revival of that
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