1841-1886
PAPERS RELATING TO
Police.
The testimony of the Acting Attorney-General as to the increased and increasing efficiency of the colonial police force is very satisfactory. Mr. Hayllar's position as public prosecutor and chairman of a lengthened inquiry into the condition of the police force in 1871-2, adds great weight to his opinion, which I can conscientiously confirm. New guard-houses have been established, and a permanent station formed at Kowloong, which has brought a lawless population into a state of peace and order formerly unknown.
A reference to the Report of the Captain Superintendent will show that the large number of 158 men of all nationalities have been struck off the roll of the force during the year. It was unhappily necessary to make these examples, but it has resulted in the increased respectability and efficiency of the force.
Post Office.
The Report of the Postmaster-General will be read with interest and satisfaction, supplemented by an additional Annual Report of an inspection by that officer lately transmitted.
General Remarks.
The public peace has been unbroken, and the laws have been firmly and judiciously administered.
I continue to receive cordial support from the executive officers of the Colony.
The Earl of Carnarvon,
&c. &c. &c.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) A. E. KENNEDY, Governor.
SIR,
Attorney-General's Office, May 6, 1874.
I have the honour to report as to the Returns for 1873, relating to crime, as follows:
The year was distinguished by a marked diminution of serious offences. The one case of murder reported in Table IV. had no connection with the Colony, arising, as it did, out of a piracy committed in Chinese waters; but the offender being arrested here was, in default of any demand for his rendition (until too late) on the part of the Chinese authorities, tried and convicted in the Supreme Court. The cases mentioned of robbery with violence occurred either in remote parts of the Island or of the Kowloong peninsula, in districts too isolated and solitary to be under direct police supervision. The amount of booty sufficient to tempt Chinese thieves to commit highway robbery is so small, in most cases amounting only to a string of cash and a few articles of clothing, and the means of concealment are so ample that it is extremely difficult to afford adequate protection to the Chinese who are compelled to make use of the hill tracks. It is, however, gratifying to know that this class of crime which has always
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1841-1886
PAPERS RELATING TO
Police.
The testimony of the Acting Attorney-General as to the increased and increasing efficiency of the colonial police force is very satisfactory. Mr. Hayllar's position as public prosecutor and chairman of a lengthened inquiry into the condition of the police force in 1871-2, adds great weight to his opinion, which I can conscientiously confirm. New guard-houses have been established, and a permanent station formed at Kowloong, which has brought a lawless population into a state of peace and order formerly unknown.
A reference to the Report of the Captain Superintendent will show that the large number of 158 men of all nationalities have been struck off the roll of the force during the year. It was unhappily necessary to make these examples, but it has resulted in the increased respecta- bility and efficiency' of the force.
Post Office.
The Report of the Postmaster-General will be read with interest and satisfaction, supplemented by an additional Annual Report of an inspection by that officer lately transmitted.
General Remarks.
The public peace has been unbroken, and the laws have been firmly and judiciously administered.
I continue to receive cordial support from the executive officers of the Colony.
The Earl of Carnarvon,
&c. &c. &c.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) A. E. KENNEDY, Governor.
SIR,
Attorney-General's Office, May 6, 1874.
I have the honour to report as to the Returns for 1873, relating to crime, as follows:
The year was distinguished by a marked diminution of serious offences. The one case of murder reported in Table IV. had no connection with the Colony, arising, as it did, out of a piracy com- mitted in Chinese waters; but the offender being arrested here was, in default of any demand for his rendition (until too late) on the part of the Chinese authorities, tried and convicted in the Supreme Court. The cases mentioned of robbery with violence occurred either in remote parts of the Island or of the Kowloong peninsula, in districts too isolated and solitary to be under direct police supervision. The amount of booty sufficient to tempt Chinese thieves to commit highway robbery is so small, in most cases amounting only to a string of cash and a few articles of clothing, and the means of concealment are so ample that it is extremely difficult to afford adequate protection to the Chinese who are compelled to make use of the hill tracks. It is, however, gratifying to know that this class of crime which has always
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