CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7] — Page 221

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2.

Salicy of the Government.

Last month the half yearly Report

of the Chamber

was

adopted, and, though

considerably

the views of its Members seemed to

modified since their first meeting, a Taragraph

in the report which endorses those

resolutions was

3.

adapted.

As the discupion in the bhamber, had Vida Enclave

J

mov

may say

in

other

any

way justified the

meither by the information it supplied,

action takken, whilst of the two resolutions

passed, the

second which affirmed the

Palice, aided

ability of the Palice,

to put

down

Gambling,

wa

by the Chinese

not

M

supported

Majority of the Meeting, I considered

by the Majority

that the Chamber had exchilited, an

undue

precipitancy in the matter, therefore,

Gout to Bery of State No 485 of 2. 1o Cifuil 1865.

5916

though it

dom

passed

wab

easy to find from the comments

on the discussion here, that it was

unlikely to have

any injurious local

effect, I nevertheless could not but feel that

warrantabile prefusives might

elsewhere by

the

be created!

circulation of a report

emanating from a body with so imparing

a title

CVD

that

of

bhamber of Commerce.

سلام

I therefore decided that it ought to be

noticed.

I had however,

some

difficulty in officially obtaining propepion of a copy of

the Report, but when I did receive it, I

caused a

Secretary,

as

J

reply

to be sent by the botonicl

avid made that

reply

as

complete

Olb

could in point of information,

to the true position of the Licensees and

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