594 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 21ST MAY, 1887.
OFFENCE.
No. of CASES.
NO. OF
PRI- SONERS.
OFFENCE.
No. of CABES.
No. of PRI-
SONERS.
Brought forward......................
12,524 14,486
Brought forward,.
14,411 16,420
Unlicensed-Plying of Boats for Hire,
83
83
Streets-Noises by Hawkers,
156
156
-Seamen's Boarding Houses,
4
4
Trees, &c.-Cutting and destroying,
84
84
-Eating Houses,
2
2
Trespass on Crown Land,
371
371 Unnatural Offence...
1
Triad Society---Being a member of,
1
1
Unwholesome Provisions-Exposing for Sale, or bring-
44
44
Turnkeys-Disobeying orders of Superintendent.
2
2
Unlawful Possession of Property,
261
308
ing into the Colony... Watchmen--Misconduct as Private,
2
2
of Trees, Shrubs, &c..
35
Unlicensed-Hawkers,
976
-Money Changer,
1
35 Weights and Measures-Breach of Ordinance for, 976 Women and Female Children--Breach of Ordinance for
1
protection of..
20
20
44
71
Carried forward,
14,411 16,420
TOTAL,...
14,611 16,647
Magistracy, Hongkong, 10th January, 1887.
N. G. MITCHELL-INNES, Acting 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, 1877, to 31st December, 1886, inclusive.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Committed to Prison
Years.
Total Number of Cases.
Ordered to find. Security.
Committed
Punished for Preferring
Total
Convicted and Punished.
Discharged.
for Trial at Supreme
Court.
or detained pending Orders of His Excellency the Governor.
To keep the Peace, to be of Good Behaviour, and to answer any
False barge Undecided.
Number
or giving
False
of Defendants.
Charge.
Testimony.
1
2
R
4
5
6
8
9
10
12
13
14
15
16
17
M.
F.
M.
P.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F. M.
F.
M.
F.
1877.
9,283
7,336 572
1,966
364
209
16
16
192
17
14
3
12
9,745 972
1878,
9,100
7,166 628
2,126 251
200
18
11
98
22
10
3
19
9,630 922
1879,
7,009 ,5,758 361
1,900 189
145
13
18
230
32
18
3
34
8,103 602
1880,
7,098
5,892 252
1,775
187
:70
27
204
48
37
33
8,126 531
1881.
1882,
1883,
1884,
7
1885,
1886,
8,203 7,049 333 7,567 6,049 394 10,653 8,127 670 14,065 11,748 1,088 10,281 7,951 849 14,611 12,081 842
1,678 173
192
48
369
65
34
53
9,879 630
1,922 255
259
17
263
100
13
80
8,622 780
2,398 349
121
154
62
G
160
11,003 | 1,101
2,294 268
101
228
53
105
14,517 1,418
2,188 258
159
357
99
6
18
10,690 1,211
2,198 190
157
869
100
32
168
15,510 1,187
Grand Total for}
the 10 Years,
97,870 79,157 5,989 20,445 | | 2,484
1,718
152
188
11
2,964
598 -176
39
682 31
105,325 9,304
Average per }
Year,
9,787.07,915.7 5989 2,044.5 |248,4
171.3
15.2
18.8
1.1
296.4
59.8
17.6
3.9
68.2
3.1
10,532.5 930.4
Magistracy, Hongkong, 10th January, 1887.
NATIONALITY.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.
TABLE A.-RETURN OF ALL CORONER'S CASES, 1886.
Inquests Held.
N. G. MITCHELL-INNES,
Acting Police Magistrate,
for the Police Magistrates.
Buried without Inquest.
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys. Girls.
Very much decomposed; sex not ascertainable.
Total.
1
7
108 50
61
51
172
Europeans and Americans, .
11
Portuguese,
Chinese,
80
14
-}
Indians,.
Total,.....
92
14
7
'7 120
Total for 1885,... 69
16
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33333
53
61
51
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175
100
55
34
41
10
144