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general
7.
action I was taking.
A very
small but, in some
respects, influential
influential section
of
the
European community, did not like
what they called my lenient treatment
entertain no
of the Chinese, and they seemed to
slight amount
of fear at the increased number of admissions to the Gaol, of cases before the Magistrates and of cases before the Supreme Court that they asserted would inevitably follow from my with the natives.
wvere
mode
of dealing
But as you
good enough to point out to
them, when they appealed to Ster No afesty's Government against
my suspension of
branding, to,
Public Floggings,
there was no cause to
fear,
and the management of these matters
might be safely left to the local Government.
8.
That the action of the local
Government has not occasioned any
crime, is seen from the
increase of crime,
jollowing figures which appear in
the enclosed returns:-
Number of admissions to the
Hong Kong baol.
3,946
1878
3803
1879-
3,669