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I-OFFENCES.

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Magistrates during 1875.

Tal Number of Offences reported.

Offences against the Person.

Gambling.

Offences* against Property (otlier than Predial Larceny).

Other Offences.

8,055

562

273

1,152

0,008

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Marine Magistrate during 1875.

Total Number of Offences

reported.

Offences against the Person.

Gambling.

Offences against Property (atlier than Prædial Larceny).

Other Offences.

432

33

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

399

II-APPREHENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.

TABLE showing the Nuinber of Persons brought before the Magistrates' Court by Arrest Warrants or Suinmons for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of in the Magistrates' Court.

Number Discharged

for want of

Prosecution by the 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 the

Superior Courts.

CO

87

3

18

Offences against the Person,-

13

Gambling,...................

Offences against Property* other than Prædial Lar- ceny,

1

13

Offences against Master and Servants Acts, including Acts relating to Inden- tured Coolies,

Other Offences,.............

Total Number of Persons

ດາງ

29

005

I

:

:.

7

371

2,465

0

Summoned or Apprehended,

147

2,606

'7

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

following Table.

• See foot note (*) above.