1872 — Page 170

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1.--OFFENCES.

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Magistrates during 1872.

Total Number of Offences reported.

10,705

Offences ngainst the Person.

Street Gambling.

Offences agaiust Property (other than Prædia. Larceny.)

Other Offences.

1,177

511

1,170

7,817

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

II-APPREHENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.

TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Magistrates' Courts by Arrest Warrant or Suininons for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of

Offences against the Person,

Prædial Larceny,

Offences against Property* other than Prædial Lar- ceny,

Offences against Master and

Servants Acts, including Acts relating to Inden- tured Coolies,

in the Magistrates' Courts.

Number Discharged

for want of

Prosecution by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.

30

Number of Cases Dismissed

Number of Persons summarily Convicted.

the Merits.

on

185

145

1

1

Number of Persons Committed for Trial in the Superior Courts.

35

47

1

3

Other Offences,

78

418

3,004

3

Total Number of Persons

Summoned or Apprehend-

ed,

108

G02

3,246

NOTE.-Purely Civil Cases in which Magistrates exercise jurisdiction are not to he included in this or the

following Table.

* See funt note (*) above.