CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10] — Page 75

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

J. play in this bolony

and

therefore it may appear presumptuous in a

officer

subordinate

to

like myself again advert to the question yet

I deem the matter.

of

o

much importance to this community that I prefer

incurring to remaining silenton it.

the risk of blame

The

experience obtained

when acting attorney-

General induced me to believe that sanctioning and controlling gambling would remove many of our most crying evils here

me

and

strengthen in a variety

of ways

the hands

of the

Excentive but the much

more extensive

and

intimate knowledge of the Chinese part of the community which has been forced uspon

" by my present tenure of

1

office convinces me that I had for no those advantages.

nanderrated

Did the matter simply

rest here I should not.

have deemed it.

tnecessary

to urge upon your Excellency now the propriety of mathing another appeal to the secretary

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