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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH FEBRUARY, 1898.

RETURN of Criminal Cases tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1897.

SENTENCE.

Charges Cases

Abandoned. Postponed.

Number of Cases tried.

Number of Persons tried.

CRIMES.

Administering stapifying drug with intent to

commit an indictable offence,

3

3

1

1

2

Bribery of a Police Constable,.

3

1

5

Arson,

Assault with intent to commit buggery.

Buggery

Conspiring to obstruct and pervert the due course

of public justice,

Demanding money with menaces..

Embezzlement,

Forgery,

Having forged Bank Note in possession, knowing

same to be forged,

Larceny.

Larceny by a Servant.

Larceny in a dwelling house,.

Manslaughter,.......

Murder,

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

Death Recorded.

Hard Labour

over One Year.

Hard Labour One

Year and under.

Solitary Confinement- Number of Persons.

Number of Persons. | Privately Flogged-

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons,

3

1

Ob aining money under false pretences,

1

Perjury,

Rape,

1

Retn ning from banishment,

B

Robbery with violence,

3

I

1

Setting fire to a dwelling house, there being person

therein.

1

2

Uttering a forged letter,

2

1

la

Uttering counterfeit coin,

7

8

Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance 1890,

Offences under,

3

Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,..

3

1

16

Wounding with intent to commit murder,

41

57

Of 67 Persons

Recognizance estreated..

#3

17

19

::

2

1

--

- - -:

3

:

27

:

:

10

1

1

3 3

...

3

1

11

11

.56 were indicted.

1

10 were not indicted which are included under the heading of "Charges Abandoned," ...10

67 Persons.

**

:

u. Defendant failed to appear, and recognizance estreated.

7. Prisoner having been found by a Jury empannelled for the purpose was committed to Gaol pending the Orders of His Excellency

the Governor.

J. W. NORTON-KYSHE, Registrar.

Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 10th day of February, 1898.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 85.

New Maps of Victoria and of Kowloon, on a scale of 60 feet to an inch, the former in 29 sheets, the latter in 5 sheets, have been received from England.

These Maps can be obtained on application at the Office of the Director of Public Works and after payment into the Treasury of $50 for the Map of Victoria, and $12 for the Map of Kowloon.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th February, 1898.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 86.

Notice is hereby given that THE NORTH BRITISH RUBBER COMPANY, LIMITED, of Castles Mills, Fountain Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, have complied with the requirements of Ordinances 16 of 1873 and 20 of 1895, for the registration in this Colony of their Mark as applied to Chinese India-Rubber Shoes, Boots, and Rubber, Gutta Percha and Caoutchouc Goods; and that the same has been duly registered.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th February, 1898.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.