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No. 63.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10т MARCH, 1880.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified that, Senor Don ALBINO MENCARINI, Consul for Spain, has reported his return to the Colony, and the resumption of his duties at the Consulate.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th March, 1880.
No. 64.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint provisionally and until further notie»- Mr. EDWARD ROSE to be Overseer of Water Works, vice STAINFIELD resigned.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th March, 1880.
No. 65.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary,
The following Returns connected with the business of the Superior and Subordinate Courts of the Colony, for the year 1879, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th March, 1880.
W. II. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary,
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of Hongkong, during the, Year 1879.
Number of Cases,
Number of Persons.
CRIMES.
8
4 Assault,
4
8
Assault occasioning actual Bodily Harm,
2
Assault with Intent to prevent Arrest,
1
Attempt to commit an Unnatural Offence,..
1
1
Being found at Night with House-breaking Implements,
21 2
Breach of Conditional Pardon,.........
5
::
5
Convicted.
Acquitted.
Death.
Death recorded.
Penal Servitude.
I Hard labour, over
1 Year.
Year and under, } Hard labour, 1
SENTENCE.
Solitary Confinement, Number of Persons.
Number of Persons. Privately Flogged,
Number of Cases.
Number of Per-
"SITOS
Number of Cases.
Nutuber of Per-
SILOR
CHARGES
CASES
ABANDONED.
POSTPONED,
16
1
Embezzlement,
1
1 Escape,
1
9 Breaking, entering and stealing in a Dwelling House...
1 Breaking out of a Dwelling House having been there with Intent to steal,
6
Burglary,....
2 Conspiracy to defraud,
1 Counterfeiting Coin,
17 Child Stealing,
1 Entering a Dwelling at Night with Intent to commit a Felony therein,
I
1 Forcibly detaining a Woman with Intent to sell her,
1
4
3
1
4
6 Highway Robbery with Violence,
a
2
16 16
Harbouring a Woman for the Purpose of Prostitution, Larceny,
12
10
I
1
Larceny by a Servant,
12
15
Larceny in a Dwelling House,
3
2
5 Larceny on board Ship in the Harbour.
2 Leading and taking away a Wemen out of the Colony for the Purpose (
190 -
5
112
:: -
of Prostitution,.
:
1
1
Manslaughter,...
1
1 Murder,
1
3 Murder on the High Seas,
3
3
:::
i
3 Murder, the deceased having been within three months previousl;
employed on board a British ship as a Seaman,
2
2 2
1
1 Neglecting to provide Infant Child with Necessaries of Life,
1
1 Perjury,
1
3 Piracy,..
1
3 Piracy with Violence,..
1
1 Receiving Goods piratically stolen,.
€ 13 Receiving Stolen Goods,
10
2
2 Returning from Deportation,
2
4 Robbery, being armed,
21
28 Robbery from the Person,
20
11
5 Robbery from the Person with Violence,.
$
7 Robbery from the Person, being armed,"
2
2 Selling a Woman for the Purpose of Prostitution,....
3
5 Unlawfully Wounding,
12 Wounding with Intent to do grievous Bodily Harm,
2
4 Unlawfully and by force bringing into this Colony a Child for the
Purpose of Selling her, ..
2
2
I am aw
2
2 Unlawfully detaining a Woman for the Purpose of Emigration,..........
*1
1 Unlawfully giving False Statement to Registrar General,
*
1
148 202
:
:
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133 51 6 6
73
36 17
6
2
11
13
* In this case the Prisoner was sentenced to 9 days' Simple Imprisonment and to pay a Fine of Fifty Dollars.
:
C. B. PLUNKET,
Registrar.