CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4] — Page 195

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

سٹی گئی میر محمد نے امیر

"Pretoria", "King Kong,

Is the January, 27%.

To the Right Hovou sibh,

193:

Colonial Office.

The number of signatures

amounts to

over

three hundred,

which

for

we consider a large amount

this Colony. They embrace the

MALLlo

of the Heads of all the

Mercantile Houses, with only two

locc

Or

thrie

eption; and indeed, every class of the Community has been pranpt to signify its approbation of the object of the Petition.

3

1

We have to

(Signed): James Leggs). (") David Welsh:

Ame Copy).

Igandting the tie

Colonial Secretary

the Love Nimberly,

!

Seiretary of Stak for the Colonies.

May it please your Lordship,

We, the undersigned by to express Lordship our regnet

ut pering

to

in

your the

Gazette of this Colony

Gooronment Gazette of

a call for Tenders for Gaming Houor Licen

ses for

Anothe

Nr do not wish to

Elength into

M

Com

troversial statement by our views as

to thes

impolicy of the Rystion of Acensed banning Houses in this Colony; but ur bry to say that the repugn

which many of us fiet towards it, when it was first propoord, has only.

bern stringthrued by the three

Art.

years' experience which for havr kid of its effrets. During the

His Lordship the Chirf pasti syar "Juatice repratioy expreped his cordemen tion of the systems in emphatic troms, when. casco arising from it were brought before him; and the senior Police Magistrati has also often

similas ma pares ixpropion to opinions of

A recent cave sobich came before

ther

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