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Jctober 1876 there were 545.
there has been in this Colony
incercare in crimes.
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the beginning of
the
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Lat
violence since
year
1875 is
ustiren by the acting thief Justice
in his recorê on
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rated 3% of August 1878, which
enclosed in
A
despatch 495 F. my the 28th September 1878. Six months before my arrival, foverun bir Arthur Kennedy warned Lord Carnawon that the criminal returns of 1876
would "indicate a serious increase
increase
"of crime." He attributed this
"apparent outbreak
among
the
"population of Hongkong" to the influx
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of credatory clapes from Ennton swing to cheap fares in the river Steamers.
Those cheap fares have continued
ever since; but I
agree
with the
dispored to
gentherman I have just quoted, Mt Mactiver, theat the increase of crime is not to
be accounted for by the cheap
alone.
Mr. Mackwen
think that the severe
Fares
en seems
Zo
distres which
exists in the neighbouring province
good dead to to writ
of
china has
a
it.
5.
be
fair
to and some others such as
To those two causes it might
the naturai increase of the sorulation,
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