CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 396

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Single instant, make official doty Excuse wither for gratififing a low

& prasient curiosity, or for instituting bulgar probe, under pretence of breaking ups unlicensed brothels.

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It is almost heedless to remark.

that the

the fact of these proceedings, which are not, I bebeve, 30 veres

unlike those adopted by all Heads

of a betective Police, having goh into

a

"the "Daily Press" is owing, in the first place, to the personal hostility, of the

Editor of that Journal to myself, hostility bitter apparently

as it is

unprovoked, and secondly to the woman in question being patronised bef "Gentlemen" ( 1 ) rather than by mater

of

of ships, and such persons. Considering however, what the state of this town

is, I am only suprised that I could have worked the Ordinance 10 of 1867

hard and

honestly for sixteen mouths without any knowledge of the various complections besetting the subject except what I gained officially and not have come earlier unto open collision with the class here, who keep Chinese women in houses which they well know to be the worst kind of brothels -

a class whose quarrel has

orthy

been taken ups, in a manner) wor

of the subject, by the Bail, Press,

There

are » a

mecuber of

houses here

as stated in any report. I on the working