No. 93.
Hongkong.
RECE
C.O.
17813
Rec 19 MAY 06.
498
Government House,
Hongkong, 19th. April, 1906.
My Lord,
38997
With reference to the second
paragraph of Mr. Lyttelton's Despatch No. 208 of the 8th.-
November, 1905, asking me to furnish a report in six
months' time on the working of Ordinance No. 7 of 1905,
entitled "An Ordinance to amend the Summary Offences
Ordinance, 1845", I have the honour to report that only
one offenes of the nature with which the Ordinance was
specially designed to deal has come before the Police
Magistrate and that it resulted in the conviction of a
woman for soliciting persons for the purpose of prostitut-
-ion.
2.
Four cases occurred in which
prosecutions were instituted under Section 2 of the
Ordinance which extended to private streets the provisions
of Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, with regard to obstructions
which had previously been held by the Magistrates to apply
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
&C.,
800...
only