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1.-OFFENCES.

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Police Magistrates during 1878.

Total Number of Offences

reported.

Offences against the Person.

Gambling

Offences against Property (other than Predial Larceny).

Other Offences.

Cases,

Persons, 10,552

9,100

1,030

754

724

476

2,008

1,888

6,702

6,002

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Marine Magistrate during 1878.

Total Number of Offences reported.

Offences against the Person.

Gambling.

Offences against Property (other than Prædial Larceny).

Other Offences.

199

34

165

* 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 Police Magistrates' Court by Arrest Warrants or Summons for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of

in the Police Magistrates' Court.

Number Discharged

for want of Prosecution by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.

Number of Cosea Dismissed

Number of Persons summarily Convicted.

the Merits.

on

Number of of

Persons Committed

for Trial in the - Superior Courts.

Offences against the Person,.. Gambling,.

45

105

109

5

5

Q

:

Offences against Property * other than Prædiol Lor-

ceny,

1

15

23

2

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

Other Offences, . ‹

Total Number of Persons Summoned or Apprehended,..

* See foot note (*) to Table I.

2

:

13

242

1,641

59.

389

1,783

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