Explanations had been insufficient and that His Excellency labored under a misapprehension as to what he had been asked to sanction:
The Duke very truly says that the duty of providing proper Quarters for the existing Police is one which should be met from the ordinary Current revenue.
That however great the delay may be admitted without question which is not that of providing quarters for the ordinary purposes hitherto recognized by this Government. On the contrary, the question is whether exceptional funds be applicable to a costly and special effort of this Government to accomplish something quite outside of its previous ordinary measures for putting down crime by hemming in the Criminals, and Hill Banditti, and intercepting them by a Telegraph line, improved Stations, wires, roads, and mounted Patrols.
8. I believe that the Criminal population are the most dangerous and incorrigible supporters of the vice of Gambling. The effectual suppression and discouragement of Criminals, resorting here is obviously one of the most effective means of at least suppressing the worst features and most injurious results of the Gambling mania, which in so remarkable a manner affects the general Chinese population.
9. The new Police Station at the Gap, the new Telegraph Station at the Peak Mountain Lodge, the repairs of the roads
ixplanations had been insufficient and that Hais Space labored under a misappre. hension as to what he had been asked
to sanction:
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