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Favre, for
it is not suggested that the Chinese themselves have suddenly.
reformed.
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Whether the Police Force is as
"
efficient as it might be having regard: to the cost of its maintenance is beside the question. What I dispute is that it has become less trustworthy by- reason of the Licensing of Gaming, contended: by the Chief Justice.
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In addition to the forats supplied by the Police Return above mentioned, I am able to Report from an Examination of the Records of the Supreme Court, that during the two
years immediately
preceeding the 1.7 January 18607%, no less
than
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Persons
and Avere,
tried
1 for Piracy
attended in most cases with murder or
Violence; whereas during the live
yourd
" immediately following, only 45 men
were tried for that Crime and not one
single Frial for Pirney has taken
years.
place during the louist two-
The Chief Justice before closing
6.
the Criminal Sessions for the minth
of March last, made an allusion to this great decrease of Crime in the __ Colony, and passed a high encomium repon the Governor for having brought. -about this satisfactory result.
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At the Mueling of the Seyiabetious Council of the 30th of March 1870, the Chief Justice delivered a farewell address to the Governor which is also