Police Allegations of Gambling in Connexion with Ganies ut the Circus The question of gambling, and incidentally the power of the conns to deal with it, was discussed at H.M. Police Court on Wednesday when F. W. Howard, circus manager, staying at the Astor House Hotel, was summoned before Mr. G. W. King for that, being the licensee of Stanton's Midway Shows, he permitted gambling on the show ground at Hardoon Road, contrary to condition 8 of his licence. and by-law 34.
Mr. E. T. Maitland appeared to prosecute and Mr. M. Reader Harris defended.
Mr. Reader Harris raised the preliminary point that, as the cour: was constituted under the Order in Council, the defendant must be acquitted, for the reason that the case did not come within the terms of article 35 of the Order in Council of 1904. The breach of a Municipal licence in Shanghai could not possibly be deemed to be an offence in England, and the alleged offence was certainly not declared to be such in the Order in Council named, or in any other order relating to China and Korea- The present alleged offence was purely
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