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Year 1896, I venture... to act Your Lordship's attention to the statistics of offences in Table A of the Police Return enclosed in my despatch.
As Sir Arthur Kennedy reported (Despatch No. 184 of the 29th September 1876), the cheap fare came into operation on the 6th of September 1876; and he appeared to think that this caused an outbreak of serious crime, owing, he supposed, to the influx of a predatory class from Canton. An analysis, however, of Table A gives the following results.
Number of Cases of Robbery Number of Cases of Larceny Number of Cases of Assault and Disorderly Conduct May to August inclusive 12 September to December inclusive 294 345 220This Return shows that the number of felonies committed in the four months preceding the influx of passengers from Canton were four hundred and fifteen, whilst in the four months during which the reduced fares were in operation the number of felonies were...