C.S.O. No 120-
Hong Kong 26th May to 6th June 1877.
Victoria Gaol
Date. 1877
No. 35 B
No. 9673
(Subject.) DESPATCH.
REC'D 10
Number of prisoners on the Gaol, recommendations for increase of crime H
Previous Paper: Submits observations with reference to Minutes relative to the Dry Earth System.
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(Minutes.)
Mr. Branston. See also 9349
Mr. Fairfield.
... away on leave, but so far as I can see there is no necessity for any immediate action on these papers.
Hong Kong M. P. Hennessy may be quite right in thinking the Prison system of Hongkong defective; he does not think, Sir A. Kennedy's notion that there was an immediate increase of some offences after the reduction of the fares from Canton...
In paragraph 4 of this despatch he takes 2 months' figures to show that the...