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1.--OFFENCES.

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Police Magistrates during 1905.

Total Number of Offences reported.

Offences against the Persom.

Gambling.

Offences against Property (other than Prædinl Larceny).

Other Offences.

Cuses ..13,450

93.4

205

1,866

10,445

Persons...... 18,475

1,268

1,497

2,377

13,333

Of the above there are 117 undecided cases including 231 persons.

TABLE showing the Number of Offences repcrted to the Marine Magistrate during 1905.

Total Number of Offences reported.

Offences against the Person,

Offences against

Refusul of Duty.

Property (other than Other Offences.

Prvilial Larceny).

Persous .........338

Cases

75

232

16

* Include both Offences against Rights of Property and Injuries to the Subjects of Property.

106

59

IL-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 Cuses Dismissed

On

the Merits.

Number of Persons Summarily Convicted.

Number of Persons Committed

for Trial

in the Superior Courts.

Offences against the Person..--|

33

153

120

I

Gambling,

30

41

1,111

Offences against Property

*

(other than Pradial Lor- ceny),

3

8

18

Offences against Masters and

Servants Acts, including Acts relating to Indentured Coolies,

Other Offences,

1

8

8

62

459

4,015

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Total Number of Persons

Summoned or Apprehended,....

129

669

5,272

3

In geldition to the above there are 117 undecided enves including 231 persons,

* See foot-note (*) to Talde I,