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I.--OFFENCES.

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Police Magistrates during 1898.

Total Number of Offences

reported.

Offences against the Person.

Offences against

Gumbling.

Property (other than Other Offences.

Prædial Larceny).

Cases

Persons

13,341

15,289

1,181

369

1,544

9,947

1,523

1,126

2,142

10,498

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Marine Magistrate during 1898.

Total Number of Offences reported.

Offences against the Person.

Offonces* against

Refusal of Duty.

Property (other than Other Offences.

Prædial Larceny).

Persons

65

6

Cases

32

6

81

14

• Include both Offences against rights of Property and Injuries to the Subjects of Property,

25

12

IL-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 Proscention by tho Party complaining or for want of Evidence.

Number of Cases Dismissed

on

the Merits.

Number of Persons Summarily Convicted.

Number of Persons Committed for Trial

in tho Superior Courts.

Offences against the Person,...

Gambling,

Offences against Proporty * (other than Prædial Lar-

ceny),

Offences against Masters and Servants Acts, including Acts relating to Indentured Coolics,

Other Offences,

Total Number of Persons Summoned or Apprehended,...

• See foot-note (") to Table I.

20

20

107

191

748

:..

1

10

7

1

:

37

237

2,845

58

358

3.795

5