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French Colonies your Memorialists are informed that even in the 
Licensed Gambling Farms such a mode of gambling is entirely 
disallowed by the Government, and is suppressed immediately on 
discovery. 
8. That the keepers of these “Wha Hoey” establishments 
open them twice each day, and as is generally the case the person 
who may be a child or a poor coolie or a blind person, trying his 
or her fortune to gain, will place a stake of say (1) one cent upon 
the “ Wha Hoey ” if such person gains he or she will receive (80) 
thirty cents, but if the choice of signs fail which is generally the 
case they lose all, in this way thousands of dollars are brought to 
the “ Wha Hoey” manager. The ‘“ Wha Hoey” keeper guaran- 
tees to be responsible to the lucky players for only say $ 1,000; 
but supposing the successful players win $ 2,000 or more, the 
keeper will only divide his guaranteed $ 1,000, amongst them, 
again 11 say two thousand persons or more were to put a dollar each 
and all of them are unsuccessful the “ Wha Hoey” keeper pockets 
the whole $ 2,000 or more. By which means he manages to 
squeeze money fraudulently out of the poor, as well as the rich. 
The mode by which the frauds are practised by the manager of a 
‘““ Wha Hoey” may be represented as thus:—The Manager makes 
it known that the maximum amount of his loss in one forenoon, 
say is $ 2,000. The Ticket to be produced by him for one stake 
being as a matter of course known to himself and his partners he 
clandestinely slips in a ticket or as many as he likes identical with 
the one to be produced, to win say $1,200. Thus his so called 
maximum loss, if he can ever lose at all, is practically reduced to 
5 800 only. 
9. So wily are the ‘‘Wha-Hoey” Keepers that sometimes they 
write on the sand the winning number, then rub it out with their 
feet at other times it is written in the palm of their hands, when 
there is no chance for the above they shout out. The place of 
thas proclaiming the character being first made known, a great 
number of people young and old assemble to hear it, when the 
time is fixed they take every trouble to mect at the appointed 
rendezvous to hear the character or successful sign proclaimed, 
and as soon as the successful sign is given, all the people interest- 
ed announce the same throughout the town, in crowds as people 
coming out of a theatre or retiring from a riot. 
iO; Your Meinorialists would hke the Honourable Members of 
the Legislative Council to know that twenty years ago or there- 
