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general

7.

action I was taking.

A very

small but, in some

respects, influential

influential section

of

the

European community, did not like

what they called my lenient treatment

entertain no

of the Chinese, and they seemed to

slight amount

of fear at the increased number of admissions to the Gaol, of cases before the Magistrates and of cases before the Supreme Court that they asserted would inevitably follow from my with the natives.

wvere

mode

of dealing

But as you

good enough to point out to

them, when they appealed to Ster No afesty's Government against

my suspension of

branding, to,

Public Floggings,

there was no cause to

fear,

and the management of these matters

might be safely left to the local Government.

8.

That the action of the local

Government has not occasioned any

crime, is seen from the

increase of crime,

jollowing figures which appear in

the enclosed returns:-

Number of admissions to the

Hong Kong baol.

3,946

1878

3803

1879-

3,669