The increase was, of smaller offences, I understand, due to the greater activity of the Police in putting a stop to unlicensed hawking in Victoria and the outstations.
The piratical attack on the Steamship "Namoa" formed the subject of Mr. Fleming's despatch No. 439 of the 16th December, 1890.
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