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at a yearly rental of £47.
There
is no immediate prospect of any further extension of the occupancies at Kowloon, In the contrary, there is rather
disposition on the part of the Let. holders to surrender their leases than
to add to their land investments.
A
Facts and
9 The total number. of Prisoners convicted at the Supreme Prisoners Court has increased from 7/5
: in 1867, to 80 in 1870; and the
convictions in the Police
Magistrates Court have
advanced from 4.90y to 6,311.
I mentioned in the
that to the
report of last year
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286
as carried
system of Deportation, out by Live R. G. Mac Donnell, the reduced
was greatly owing
number of Prisoners under
confinement in Salso expressed
the
Jail, and
opinion
that
any
relaxation of
the
system would result in as
marked increase as
the decrease!
had been
Results have preved the accuracy of my conclusions, as I find that up to the 18th June 1870. the of Prisonces in Jail.
average mm. ba
was 350, and that on the removal
after that date of the practice,