CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8] — Page 519

ENCLOSURE

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Confidential.

Sir,

20054

RECP

(REL 15 SEP 7;

10, Belilios Terrace.

Hong-Kong, 22nd July, 1897.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your confidential letter No.8 of the 19th instant and its

enclosures.

The following is a statement of the grounds

upon which I rely to exculpate myself from the charges made

against me.

1. I did not between the 1st January 1897 and

the 28th June, 1897 or at any other time receive from the

keepers of illegal public gaming houses situate in Wa Lane

and Cheung Hing Lane in Victoria, Hong Kong, through a head

district watchman named Wan Shing and through a Clerk in the

Registrar General's Office named Ip Pak Shau or otherwise the

sum of $412.50 or any other sum.

The statement of Ip Pak Shau, so far as it

relates to this first charge is false.

2. I did not during the months of June & July

1897, or at any other time, obtain for my own use sums of

money amounting to about $100, or any other sum from certain

Chinese who applied to the Registrar General for certificates

to enable them to land at San Francisco.

The Honourable

J.H. Stewart Lockhart,

Colonial Secretary.