CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12] — Page 228

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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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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221

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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