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inconvenience to this Government.
The Proclamation however
was
strictly carried out as far
as the absence
of a Customs' Department permitted, and
Essentials
of a
Police Force.
While
on
this subject I may
remark that the Returns shew an
increase of Crime.
numerous
confiscations
were made.
Health
18.
16.
I regret to say that notwithstanding
the intelligence
and zeal of the Captain Superintendent of Police and his Assistant
I cannot make a favourable report of the
force
under them. There
are doubtless
great difficulties in their way, owing
to the lawless
and strange people with
whom they have to deal, but the men
of the force themselves, whether European
or Indian are
wanting in most of the
The Colonial Surgeon's annual
Report is satisfactory
and the Sanitary
Commission to which he alludes sat
throughout the
year, sending in their Report in the month of December - This Report has been placed before the Home Government and, as occasion arises, will be given to several of
the
effect
suggestions
of
the Commission-
some of these have
already been adopted as Dr. Murray observes,
with
good result.