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I.-OFFENCES.

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Police Magistrates during 1881.

Total Number of Offences

reported.

Offences against the Person.

Offences against

Gambling.

Property (other than Prædial Larceny).

Other Offences.

Persons, 10,009

1,151

1,178

1,755

5,925

Cases,

8,203

803

559

1,549

5,234

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Marine Magistrate during 1881.

Total Number of Offences reported.

Offences against the Person.

Offences* against

Gambling.

Property (other than Other Offences.

Predial Larceny).

86

14

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

72

II. APPREHENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.

TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Police Magistrates' Court by Arrest Warrants or Summonses 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 Cases, Dismissed

оп

the Merits.

Number of Persons summarily Convicted.

Number of Persons Committed

for Trial

in the

Superior Courts.

Offences against the Person,...

Gambling,

07

101

100

5

37

643

Offences against Property*

(other than Prædial Lår- cony,)

1

8

32

10

Offences against Masters and

Servants Acts, including

Acts relating to Indentured

Coolies,

Other Offences,

1

1

19

100

1,139

:

:

Total Number of Persons

Summoned or Apprehended,...

87

307

1,020

15

• Sea foot not (*) to Table I.