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there is being chiefly

carried ou

in coolie houses, unoccupied houses, and in the street. The suppression

of

these

gambling

houses has removed

a kuuptation which often proved

many and which lea

too skong for many

to numeraw

complaints of persons

cukrusted with the collection of

money

and of

other

employes having

absconded through having lost money

gambling. Such complanits are

al

now seldom heard, and cases.

bezzlement are not

requent as formerly

of

nearly

2.0

Another result of the

crime.

I have r°.

(18].) J. Ht. Stewart Lockhart.

Registrar General.

Hour: G. J. M. OBrien, ques.

Colonial Secretary

میرا

$

gambling

law is that evince it came

cinto force

number of bad

force a large

characters whone the

gambling-

houses attracted to the Colony

who were to a

and

great extent dependent

upon them for a livelihood, have

left the Colony,

and this no doubt

has led to a divination ari

crime