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habitual criminals of this Colony to the gambling haunts in the villages just beyond the boundary of British Kowloon, I represented the fact to Sir Brooke Robertson, who lost no

time in asking

the Viceroy

of Canton

to check the gambling. Mr. Creagh

reports that it has not yet ceased though the tables

have been closed. In his

report

he

says :-

"Numbers of deported criminals frequent this neighborhood; on the

18th instant fifteen

men who had

been branded and banished from

this Colony

were

counted in the

Sham Shui Po

villages where these

men were seen,

are within

a few yards of our territory. Mr Creagh is of opinion that

many

of the night robberies which have been of late years reported in this Colony have been committed by such men.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient

humble

servant

Apes January.

Governor

"streets of Chinese Kowloon and