RECEIVED
6.0.
13 SEP
1877
EO
531
Ae87.
My Lord,
Government House,
Hongkong, 3rd August, 1877.
In looking through the various statistical returns & have recently transmitted bearing on the state of crime for the last few years, I have observed that crime is on the increase.
Right Honourable
The Earl of Carnarvon,
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,