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ment of Hong Kong or disturb the keepers thereof.
The Attorney General having read the material documents relating to the case, Inspector Hore was examined in regard to the above charge (see notes of evidence attached).
Inspector Hore having retired, the Council proceeded to consider the case.
The Council were unanimous in the opinion that Inspector Hore was guilty of the charge preferred against him and with the exception of Commander Rumsey, R.N., recommended his dismissal from the public service of the Colony subject to the confirmation of the Secretary of State.
Commander Rumsey expressed himself in favour of a lighter punishment.
Mr. C. Osmund, 1st Clerk in the Registrar General's Office then appeared to defend himself orally against the following charges preferred against him.
1. That he, while employed in the Service of the Hong Kong Government's First Clerk in the Registrar General's Office and while in a position of trust and responsibility, improperly, corruptly and in breach of his duty as an officer of the Hong Kong Government, did between the 1st January 1897 and the 28th June, 1897, receive from the keepers of illegal public gaming houses situate in Wa Lane and Cheung Hing Lane in Victoria, Hong Kong, through a head district watchman named Wan Shing and through a Clerk in the Registrar General's Office named Ip Pak Shau, the sum of $412.50.