CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10] — Page 60

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اتین

of

local r

of China

rearing

As

from

the mainland

Wo

China . The Colony has also, reported in my despatches of the 10t June and 7th August, No. 80 and 122, been made the unwilling recipient of two considerable shipments of vaga from Saigon.

bends

Under such circumstances we

2.

have not only had

Anore

than the

nonal number of Binglaries, Larcenies,

and Robberies with Violence, but she

movements of the different gangs

been daring

have

and ubiquitous beyond

precedent; the premises of Mest" Jardine,

Marties on Oo having been

their large private

even invaded

notwirtustanding

ading thei

Seapay Guard.

B.

a.

good

Not unnaturally there has been

od deal of anciternent throughout

the European Community, and, as somal

ent

such occasions,

ait of furor has been directed

a

very

unreasonable

amant

against the Police

...for

thew

seeming

inability either to prevent crimes

BY

to discover the perpetrators instantaneously

сов

As resulting from this feeling

on the part of the Community, an

ulouse Nit application

Ano

made to me

by the

Nor-Official Justices of the Peace for a

Commission to

he as ons

en

quire into the state

the

nelcoure No. 2.

of the Police Force which

assigned

for

in the Colonial

Secretary's Letter, I declined, and in

adwure N.3. with covering letter from

Committer to Colonial Secretary

equences

a Memorial has been

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