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1.-OFFENCES.
TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Police Magistrates during 1885.
Total Number of Offences reported.
Offences against the Person.
Gambling.
Offences Property (other than Prædial Larceny).
against
Other Offences.
Porsons, 11,901
955
954
1,932
8,060
Casos,
10,281
688
515
1,714
7,364
TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Marine Magistrate during 1885.
Total Number of Offences reported.
Offences against tho Person.
Refusal of Duty.
Offences *nguinet Property (other than Predial Larceny.
Other Offencos.
Persons
221
32
Cason
111
27
110
26
* Include both Offences against rights of Property and Injuries to the Subjects of Property.
:
79
58
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 tho Party complaining or for want of Evidenco,
Number of Спаев, Dismissed
011
the Morits.
Number of Persons Summarily Convicted.
Number of Persons Committed
for Trial
in the
Superior Courts.
Offences against the Person,...
65
139
117
Gambling,.
6
47
509
***
Offences against Property
(other than Prædial Lar-
cony,)
27
40
Offences against Masters and
Servants Acts, including
Acts relating to Indentured Coolies,
1
2
1
*
Other Offences,.........................
44
369
3,505
Total Number of Porsous Summoned or Apprehended,...
120
584
、4,172
* See foot note (*) to Table T.