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Legislative Council, 19th September 1872.
Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy, said-
He knew this, however, that the population of this Colony was as orderly and law-abiding as that of any of Her Majesty's dominions. He was contented with the general results, which were very satisfactory...
There were indeed very few places where there was so satisfactory an account of crime. From the latest return he found that out of a population of 140,000 Chinese and