602 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 9TH JUNE, 1888..
OFFENCE.
No. of CASES.
No. of PRI- BONERS.
OFFENCE.
No. of CASES.
No. of PRI-
SONERS.
Brought forward..
9,956 12,029
Brought forward,
11,681 13,815
Streams-Defiling,
49 49 Unlicensed-Money Changer,
2
2
Streets-Noises by Hawkers..
129
129
Threats with intent to murder,
1
Trees, &c.-Cutting and destroying,
77
77
-Plying of Boats or Vessels for Hire,
-Seamen's Boarding Houses, -Undertaker,
12
12
1
1
1:
1
Trespass on Crown Land,
146
Triad and Unlawful Societies--Breach of Ordinance for
25
25
Suppression of,
146 Unwholesome Provisions-Exposing for Sale, or bring-
ing into the Colony, Watchmen-Misconduct as Private.
30
30
1
1
Unlawful Possession of Property.
281
342 Weights and Measures--Breach of Ordinance for,
207:
207
•
of Trees, Shrubs. &c..
23
44
Unlicensed--Coffee Shop,
-Hawkers, -Latrine,
}
992)
23 Women and Female Children-Breach of Ordinance for
protection of..... 992 Workmen--Intimidating,
78
111
2
2
1
11
Carried forward,
11,681 13,815|
TOTAL..
12,015 14,182
Magistracy, Hongkong, 9th January, 1888.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate, for the Police Magistrates.
ABSTRACT of CASES brought under COGNIZANCE at the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT during a period of Ten Years, from 1st January, 1878, to 31st December, 1887, inclusive.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Years.
Total Number of Cases.
Committed
Committed to Prison
Ordered to find Security.
Punished for Preferring
Total
Convicted and Punished.
Discharged.
for Trial at Supreme
or detained pending Orders of
False Charge Undecided.
Number
Court.
His Excellency
To keep the Peace, and to be of Good
or giving
False
of Defendants.
the Governor.
Behaviour..
Testimony.
1
2
B
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F
M.
F.
M.
F.
1878,
9,100
7,166
628
2,126
251
200
18
11
98
22
1879,
7,009
5.758 361
1,900
189
145
13
18
230
32
1880,
7,098
5,892 252
1,775
187
170
27
15
204
48
22X
10
3
19
9,630
922
18
3
34
8,103 602
37
33
8,126
531
1881.
8,203
7,049 333
1,678
178
192
48
4
369
65
53
9,379
630
1882,
7,567
6,049
894
1,022
255
259
17
268
100
13
! 80
8,622
780
1883,
10,653
8,127
670
2,398
349
121
154
62
160
11,003 1,101
1884.
14,065
11,7481,088
2,294
268
101
228
53
105
14,517 1,418
1885.
10,281
7,951
849
2,188
258
159:
1886,
14,611
12.081 842
2.198
190
157
1887,
12,015
10,354
325
2,620
159
158
ANC
357
99
18
10,690 1,211
869
100
32
168
15,510 1,187
28
411
52
14
*48
13,833
549
Grand Total for}
the 10 Years, 100,602
82,175 5,742
21,099 2,279
1,662
146 200
14
3,183
633 176
36
718
31
109,213 8,881
Average per
Year,
10,060.2 8,217.5
6742 | 2,109.9 | 227.9
166.2
14.6 20.0
1.4
318.3
63.3
17.0
8.6
71,8
3.1
10,921.3 888.1
*One male committed suicide in Gaol while under renand.
Magistracy. Hongkong, 9th Jannary, 1888.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.
TABLE A.-RETURN OF ALL CORONER'S CASES, 1887.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate,
for the Police Magistrates.
Inquest Held.
Buried without Inquest.
NATIONALITY,
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys. Girls.
Very much decomposed; sex not ascertainable.
Total.
Europeans and Americans, .
9
Portuguese,
1
1
:
Japanese,
:
:
Jews,
Chinese,
72
10
13
7
102 60
11
73
73
18
235
Total,.
84
10
14
7
115
68
11
75
73
18
245
Total for 1886, .
69
16
7
00
100
11353
55
4
341 41
10
144