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I.-OFFENCES.

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Police Magistrates during 1879.

Total Number of Offences reported.

Offences against the Person.

Gambling.

Offences against Property (other than Prædial Larceny).

Other Offences.

Persona, 8,705

1,132

803

1,872

4,808

Cases,

7,009

808

329

1,044

4.208

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Marine Magistrate during 1879.

Total Number of Offences reported.

Offences

Offences against

against the Person.

Gambling.

Property (other than Other Offences

Prædial Larceny).

144

20

* Include both Offences against rights of Property and Injuries to the subjects of Property.

124

II.-APPREHENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.

TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Police Magistrates' Court by Arrest

Warrants or Summonses for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of

in the Police Magistrates' Court.

Number Discharged

for want of

Prosecution by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.

Number of Cases Dismissed

Number of Persons summarily Convicted.

their Merits.

On

Number

of Persons Committed for Trial in the

Superior Courta

Offences against the Person,..

Gambling,

91

207

121

1

Offences against Property"

other than Predial Lor- ceny,

29

95

Offences against Masters and

Servants Acta, including Acta relating to Indentured Coolies,

Other Offences,

2

3

18

B

126

674

::

C

Total Number of Persons

Summoned or Apprehended,..

50

982

897

3

See foot note

to Table I.