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expecting that the machinery for excluding the class of domestic and confidential servants from the licensed horses will

b.

be still.

perfect and officinist.

For the reasons despatch M. 439. Par. 28. I

aving

given

ini

my

AMN

obliged 439

to the impossibility of discovering 2790

the exact motive for crime in each case),

and also aving to there being

of those

CAs W

when thieft

to loses at gaming,

general

latter at

Ma

to lake.

as

Mo

record)

attributable

my

of the amount of the

asure of the

meaQAN

any period

the number of

of larceny by suvants recurring during

that period. It may appear a rough,

but it is not

aw

curate standard)

inaccurate

of comparison, whilst it may fairly be

gaming

inferred that when larceny by servants has abated one half.

must have diminished

7.

Yew Grace will also rememba

that whilt there.

an e

only

13. Licensed

Harses in the City of Victorias I drew

Par. 10. attention in

my despatch No 439

fact of strere having been 45 gaining houses existing 1866, though during

illegal

to the

the 1st November

the

previous

eleven

months Is had been broken up. I aw

therefore inclined to believe that not

are the results of the Gambling

merely

which

Jors

or under the existing

Regulations lefe pernicious than formerly,

contra=

which I think can scarcely be contion

dicted with brush, but I new

believe

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