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V.—COMPARATIVE TABLE.

COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Number of Offences Apprehensions, Convictions, and Acquittals, for the last Four Years.

1869.

1870.

1871.

1872.

The number of Offences reported to the Police,

4,001

5,530

6,452

10,350

The number of Persons apprehended by the Police or summoned

before the Magistrates,

8,038

9,793

10,056

16,199

The number of Summary Convictions:-

1. For Offences against the Person,

502

693

675

783

2. For Street Gambling,

* 541

3. For Offences against Property other than Pradial Larceny,

401

531

565

027

4. For other Offences,

2,050

3,388

3,837

6,157

The number of Convictions in the Superior Courts :—

1. For Offences against the Person,

29

15

20

8

2. For Prædial Larceny,

3. For Offences against Property other than Predial Larceny,

39

44

64

34

4. For other Offences,

7

21

8

3

The number of Persons acquitted :~~

1. In the Inferior Courts,

2,208

2,477

2,820

2,802

2. In the Superior Courts,....

21

12

26

37

* Included under Head of "Other Offences" in previous years.