10
440
*
these prisoners nor was any evidence tendered by the Police that they were considered to be suspicious characters; and there seems to have been no reasonable grounds for regarding them as persons dangerous to the peace of the colony.
12. The third case of a prisoner deported on the 1st of December, was one very different. But its particulars are not unworthy of attention, as showing a somewhat doubtful mode of dealing with crime, to which I have alluded in other despatches. The prisoner Lo-Juk is recommended by Mr. Stewart for deportation in the following terms:-
14. 7
"6th Conviction - 5th September 1876. For being a Rogue and Vagabond, a suspected person, and an old offender, frequenting this Colony for felonious purposes; having no place of abode, and no visible means of subsistence - Sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour, and recommended for deportation": a fit subject
This man's previous convictions were, 1st Conviction 7th January 1874, for being a rogue