2
·
4313
each
period.
Q
As
on the report of any
Piratical
outrage immediate and energetic stepo at once taken to trace the Pirates and
are
inflict punishment on them it notumfequently happen。 that, despite of the precaution now, insisted fon of exacting security from the informanto ito attend and
evidence when required, give the Chinese endeavor to avail themselves
¡of the Machinery of Government for their
own
purposes and thus Several false reports from private motives of interest
or malice
are from time to time made to the Police. These Reports when detected to be fabrications are eliminated from the returns Sent herewith. Thus N8 is struck out
fof the
Cualysis of Evacy
Cases for the 1st
32
half of the current
3.
year.
From the enclosed Reports, the
great majority of which refer only to very
minar robberico committed
near
on small boats the shore Your Grace will perceive that
during 12 months there have only been
9.8 cases.
10th
In
my despatch N 327 of the July 1867 Ireported that the number
87/18/07. of pimilar
covered
Jon
cases
for the nine montho
by the enclosed Returno
at the rate of
of per
was 21
Quanter
a rate
which coincides exactly with that for
the 12 months ended last
4.
Cases
July
This Retum would be eminently
satiofistory, expecially as out of the 28
punishment followed promptly in it not that Report N°10 of
eleven,
were