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there are I understand several large tracts of land in the New Territories well suited for regular cultivation and pasturage.
Save Me There exists no means of forming any comparative table showing the increase or diminution of crime in Colony- But there certainly has been a very great decrease, particularly in cases of violence since the month of June last and no second attack has been made by armed bodies of robbers.
This improvement is chiefly due to an efficient system of Police.
The crimes that are committed are for the most part burglaries owing to the number of labourers of the worst class employed in house-building living on the premises where they are at work. As the houses become finished and this migratory
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