CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 390

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

12078

384

Trong bóng

No84

21st June, 1880.

Governos

Sir John Pope Hennessy, K.C.M. Gy.

to

The Right Honourable

The Earl of Himberley

Transmitting Minutes of Governot Mackomail

a

and other papers

in a case

where

Registrar General acted as

informer, witness and judge under the Contagious Diseases Ordinance.

REGS 9 AUG 20

Extract from the leading article of the

"Daily Press dated Hongkong 30th September 18996

"The system of espionage, which has gradually grown up in Honghong - an ugly

exerescenel

1

consequent on an unhealthy

state of the Government - is carried to lengths that is absolutely astounding, in a Colony that is supposed to enjoy the advantages of something like free institutions. The

and trouble, to which respectable

annoyance.

in

inhabitants are frequently subjected connection with the Gambling Ordinance, has been the subject of frequent animadversion and there appears little doubt that it has

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