Number
Years.
of Cases.
Convicted and Punished.
Discharged.
Committed for Trial at Supreme Court.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG, GOVT. GAZETTE OF 8TH MAY, 1886. 413
ABSTRACT of CASES brought under COGNIZANCE at the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT during a period of Ten Years, from 1st January, 1876, to 31st December, 1885, inclusive.
Total
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Committed to Prison
or detained pending Orders of His Excellency
Ordered to find Security.
Punished for Preferring
To keep the Peace,
| False Charge Undecided.
Total Number
to be of Good Behaviour, and
or giving
False
of Defendants.
the Governor.
to answer any
Charge.
Testimony.
2
3
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.
1876,
9,103
7,315
683
1,744
300
118
11
6
174
23
25
1877,
9,283
7,386
572
1,966
364
209
15
16
192
17
14
1878,
9,100
7,166
628
2,126
251
200
18
11
98
22
10
1879,
5,758 7,009
361
1,900
189
145
13
18
230
32
18
1880,
7,098
5,892 252
1,775
187
170
27
15
204
48
37
15
1-40 40 40 10
7
20
3
12
3
19
3
34
33
NAB⠀
9,402 1,024
9,745
972
9,630
922
8,103
602
2
8,126 531
41,598
33,467 2,496
9,511
1,291
842
84
'66
898
142
104
31.
118
6
45,006 4,051
881.
8,203
7,049
333
1,678
173
192
48
1882.
. 7,567
6,049
1,922 394
255
259
17
1883,
10,653
8,127
670
2,398
349
121
1884,
14,065
11,7481,088
2,294
268
101
1885,
10,281
7,951
849
2,188
258
159
*7822
4
369
65
34
6
53
36
3
263
100
13
4
80
37
1
154
62
6
160
35
228
53
6
11
3
357
99
6
105 18
OPEN:
5
9,379 630
7
8,622 780.
11,003 1,101
2
14,517 | 1,418
10,690 1,211
7
=
50,769 40,9248,834 10,480 1,308
882
77
123
010
1,371
379
65
12 416
25 54,211 5,140
Average of 1st
period,
8,318.6
7,192.6
2,160.4
185.2
13.4
208.
27.
24.8
9,811.4
Average of 2nd
period,
10,153.8
8,851.6
2,356.6
181.8
26.6
350.
15.4
88.2
11,870.2
ALFRED G. WISE,
Magistracy, Hongkong, 7th January, 1886.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.
TABLE A.-Return of all Coroner's Cases, 1885.
Police Magistrate,
for the Police Magistrates.
Inquests Held.
Buried without Inquest.
Nationality.
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys, Girls.
Very much decom- posed; sex not ascertainable.
Total.
Europeans and Americans,...
15
F
Portuguese,
ہے
Chinese,
Indians,.
51
16
3
to
Total,...
69
16
7
Total for 1884,......
54
17
10
16
:.
1
:
80 46
52
58
6
165
3
20
:
00
8
100
56
00
3
52
12
58
6
175
6
Co
82
55
34
41
10
144