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at a yearly rental of £47.

There

is no immediate prospect of any further extension of the occupancies at Kowloon, In the contrary, there is rather

disposition on the part of the Let. holders to surrender their leases than

to add to their land investments.

A

Facts and

9 The total number. of Prisoners convicted at the Supreme Prisoners Court has increased from 7/5

: in 1867, to 80 in 1870; and the

convictions in the Police

Magistrates Court have

advanced from 4.90y to 6,311.

I mentioned in the

that to the

report of last year

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286

as carried

system of Deportation, out by Live R. G. Mac Donnell, the reduced

was greatly owing

number of Prisoners under

confinement in Salso expressed

the

Jail, and

opinion

that

any

relaxation of

the

system would result in as

marked increase as

the decrease!

had been

Results have preved the accuracy of my conclusions, as I find that up to the 18th June 1870. the of Prisonces in Jail.

average mm. ba

was 350, and that on the removal

after that date of the practice,