5.
4
anxious to co
compare the Stalities of Crime during the six montes preceding uny Bovernment and the cix months of last year. —
4. What Return will be found in the fostract
in the fostract appended to the enclosed Report, and chens
M a
comparison of the two periods
the extraordinary decrease of 51 for cent in Serious offences - and 45. 6.
in all others -
decrease on
or an average
the whole of 47.9.
5. This result is the more
as on
examining
gratisying
Appendix C. which gives the Comparative Quarterly Returns of Larceny amongste bervants,
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|| it appears that since the institution of Licensed Gambling Houses in 1867,
cases of that nature have been gradually diminishing from a Quarterly average of 80 and upwarts till they fell to 10 cases last Quarter, of which 5 were
6. I am not aware
discharged.
that the
Criminal Statistics of any
British
Colony have ever shewn so remaskine
a
decrease of Crime in the
same
ferion _ a result, which seems
to
greatly to depress a few persons, who find a gratification in misrepresenting and disparaging the Government. Thus, dobserve that in the "Daily Pres", il h-
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