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It is hereby notified, that the Honorable RICHARD ROWETT, Member of the Legislative Council, has this day reported his return to the Colony.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
The following Report from the Captain Superintendent of l'olice for the Year 1872, is published for general information.
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th February, 1873.
No. 25.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 28th January, 1873. SIR,-In accordance with your instructions, I have the honor to subinit the following Report and Returns for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor.
2. I am happy to be able to report that the Crimes committed in 1872 were not in themselves of so serious a nature as those that occurred in the previous year.
The Police were also more successful in arresting the Offenders.
3. The increase in the Miscellaneous Offences is so great, that I have added a Return which gives in detail the offences committed. It will be readily seen that the operation of new Ordinances in a great degree accounts for this increase.
4. Three Murders were committed. In one case, a Soldier of H. M.'s 10th Regiment shot a comrade on guard; an acquittal on the grounds of insanity ensued. In the second case, a Chinaman having murdered a Chinawoman in Tai-ping-shan vas cleverly captured by two Native Constables as he was leaving the Colony; he was duly convicted and executed. The third case was the murder of a Fisherman which took place on the Sea near the Eastern extremity of the Island; the shot which caused death was fired from a piratical vessel, which has not again been seen within British Jurisdiction.
5. The Piracies and Robberies in Chinese waters reported are few in number, but I have reason to believe that this falling off is due to the junk people who suffer being aware that no assistance is given by the British Authorities to trace pirate boats beyond their jurisdiction, and they, therefore, abstain from making reports.
6. The Highway Robberies recorded (five at least of which were false reports) were, with one exception, not of a serious nature. The total value of the property stolen in eighteen undetected cases was under $100.
7. A decrease of 111 cases is recorded in the number of Burglaries and Larcenics from Lwelling houses.
In the majority of cases, there was little inoral doubt but that the thieves had an accomplice I cannot too strongly urge upon residents the advantage of prohibiting their servants from lodging friends or clansmen at night.
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8. Whilst on this point, I may again recommend that both servants and visitors should be Lebe liable to punishment, when the latter have been allowed to sleep in a house contrary to the her's instructions; and that the registration ticket of each servant should contain his description and photograph, together with the name of his untive village, &e. (Letter No. 199 of 1871.)