CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 261

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instituted

19.

It is remarkable, too, that accord=

ing to one

guurleman (M: Mitch cook)

gentlen

liade had declined because tradus thought

they could mate

an

easier living ly

gambling, a deliberate abandonment of mercantile pursuits for

probably

Mover

Aias es

before influenced

large body of commercial mer.

14.

here)

such

Ao

I think it only necessary to state

auw

impressions alludisto

like the genitumen I do 30

I aport

12t That Gambling in any

reply, and

dogmatically-

form

has had

nothing whatever to do with any supposed real depreciation in either trade or house propinty

gudly that it is not the opinion of the respectable Chinese that opening haves under Government aupervision is objectionable

ov

J

injurions and that their opinion is the Tuase

gidly that the Licuisers do not pay the

Govermnat

lo

$250,000 per

¢|AtLL4A;L3#°༽» Mer

$200,000, and that they have not an

of $400,000 a $ 500,000 ov

of the Caller ammut.

half

(hly I assert that the Compradores of

the genitemen who addressed the Meeting, and had given them the in

chan the information

as

they alleged from which thing derived their inspiration; are generally inveterate gamblew though they gamble at cheir

Wow......

Clubs, where

as

much

as $60,00

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