CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898 — Page 357

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

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14200.

·00 frem

dime or there would be. less. They also show a loss in about sive months of £7.500.or # 6.500 or about Y. Pain of all who brently 7. per diml.

$40.

one

gamble between 6. alm. and midnight Taking

day with another take a total beliveent them of #250 it is fair to assume the would leave at very least £175 behind. No. doubt #200 would be nearer the mark. Now I submit that gambling house to which only #250 is taken in eighteen hours is not a large establishment, and the gambling would be less brisk than in some of the bodie houses in which gambling is carried on for

an hour or live at night. With regard to the alleged loss of # 7.500 or £6.500 in sive months is it at all likely that the masters would go on losing their mont

in this way for the sake of waving it

bribes to the Police. I submit, is more likely that the masters drew money on the accountant tham In. in the names of myself and others that they might pocket it themselves to secure themselves against lossgs. No doubt were there are several masters as here each will try to get the better of the others. Sham In States that money put aside. for me was given to his le tansman. Sham bhd. He states sham bha. has no interest in gambling houses and has not had for sixe yevates sham bha

But. Witness this Leune.

your other

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