468
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH OCTOBER, 1878.
205
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH OCTOBER, 1878.
469
No. 193.
2. Letters from Bank Managers, dated 27th September, 1878, as to increased night patrols, with correspondence and minutes thereon.
3. Police Report and Returns of Crime for the year 1874, (as published in the Government Gazette, February, 1875).
4. Police Report and Returns of Crime for 1875, showing an increase of 19.74 per cent. of serious crime" as compared with 1874, (Government Gazette, February, 1876).
5. Police Report and Returns of Crime for 1876, showing "an increase of 6.45 per cent, of Serious Crime, and an increase of 23.80 per cent. of Minor Offences," as compared with 1875, (Government Gazette, February, 1877).
6. Police Report and Returns of Crime for 1877, showing an "increase of 32.39 per cent, of Serious Crime, and an increase of 7.13 per cent. of Minor Offences," as compared with 1876, (Government Gazette, April, 1878).
7. Despatch from Governor SIR ARTHUR KENNEDY to the EARL OF CARNARVON, dated 29th September, 1876, reporting that "various returns may hereafter indicate a serious increase of crime in this Colony," and attributing "this apparent outbreak among the population of Hongkong," to the cheap fares of the Canton River Stemmers.
8. Returns and information on this subject transmitted to the EARL OF CARNARVON by Governor POPE HENNESHY,
9. Letters from His Excellency the Governor to Commodore WATSON and H. M. Consul at Canton, dated 3rd and 5th of May, 1877, respecting an attack by armed robbers on one of the villages in Hongkong, with subsequent Police Report of a similar attack on another village of the Colony.
10. Statement made by His Excellency the Governor to the Legislative Council, on the 17th of September, 1877, ou the increase of crime.
11. Letter from Mr. DEANE, the Captain Superintendent of Police, dated Bath, 26th November, 1877, submitting certain explanations concerning the apparent increase of crime in Hongkong.
12. Statement made by His Excellency the Governor to the Legislative Council, on the 12th of November, 1877, on the advantage of having Steam-launches for Police purposes, with Minutes on this subject, and Reports from Mr. CREAGH and Mr. DEANE.
13. Papers on the subject of increasing the number of armed Police; placing the District Watchmen under the Captain Superintendent of Police, and further organizing the native Watchmen for Police purposes.
14. All the daily Police Reports and other Returns respecting the Police in 1878 (up to date).
No. 192.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
The following comparative Retura, prepared by the late Acting Superintendent of the Gaol, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th September, 1878.
C. MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Number of Prisoners discharged from the Hongkong Gaol, by Pardon, Warrant, or Authority of His Excellency the Governor, before such Prisoners had served two-thirds of the sentence of imprisonment imposed by the Judges or Magistrates.*
EUROPEANS. INDIANS.
CHINESE.
In the fifteen months, from 21st January, 1876,
to 21st April, 1877,
9
142
In the fifteen months, from 22nd April, 1877,
12
to 22nd July, 1878,.....
2
72
* This Return dres not include Prisoners whose times the Gambling were remitted on the recoravundations of the Magistentes.
In reference to the number 142, there are twelve Chinese now in Gaol, and to the latter number 72, six are now in Gaol.
24th July, 1878.
T. C. DEMPSTER, Captain,
Acting Superintendent Longbang Gaol.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. The following Notification received from the Colonial Secretary, Ceylon, is published for general information.
By Comunand,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st October, 1878.
C. MAY, Acting Calonial Secretory.
Till further notice there will be held monthly at Trincomalie sales of timber felled in the Government Forests of Tamankaduwa. The timber will be laid down on the sea beach of the inner harbour of Trincomalie.
The quantity of timber offered at each sale will be about 100 logs of Ebony and 500 logs of Satin-wood, Halinilla, &c.
The sales will be held on the 20th of each month, or if the 20th falls on a Sunday, then on the Monday 21st.
The first sale will be held on Monday, 21st October.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Colombo, 10th September, 1878.
No. 194.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
JOHN DOUGLAS,
Colonial Secretary,
The following Instructious for the guidance of persons engaged in Chinese Immigration, which have been issued in Singapore, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd October, 1878.
C. MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN CHINESE IMMIGRATION AND OF PERSONS IN CHARGE OF DEFOTS UNDER ORDINANCE No. II or 1877.
1. By the Chinese Immigrants Ordinance, 1877, no Chinese Immigrant is to be landed at any
of the Settlements at any place beyond the limits of the port at the Settlement, under a penalty not exceeding $25 for each Immigrant landed at any other place (Sections 2 and 10).
2. The arrival of every Chinese Inmigrant Ship at any Settlement is to be forthwith reported to the Master-Attendant or Harbour-master under penalty not exceeding $500 (Section 10), when an officer from the Department of the Protector is to board the ship (Section 3) and examine each Immigrant as to the payment of his passage money (Section 5),
3. No Immigrant can be landed till after the Ship has been visited by the officers of the Chinese Department.
4. All Immigrants whose passage shall not be paid for, within 24 hours after the arrival of the Ship, are to be landed at a dépôt, where they are to be kept under the care of the Protector, till arrangements are made for their passage money and agreements to labour; but no such Immigrant is to be kept longer than 10 days against his own will (Section 7).
5. All engagements to labour are to be registered in such form as the Governor may direct (Section 8).
6. By Section 9 the words "Chinese Immigrant" and "Immigrant Ship" are defined as follows:-- "Chinese Immigrant" means Chinese brought to the Colony from China in a Chinese Immigrant Ship, not being first or second class passengers; and "Chinese Immigrant Ships" are ships bringing such persons exceeding 20 in number to the colony.
NOTE.
It will facilitate the despatch of ships, if the masters of vessels with Chinese passengers on board, and separate the will, on approaching the Ports of the Straits Settlements, hoist the signal D.K.W., women and children on board, from the rest of the passengers.
Singapore, 14th August, 1878.
W. A. PICKERING, Protector of Chinese.
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