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No. 60.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH MARCH, 1880.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Comparative Return of Stamp Revenue collected up to the end of February, in 1879 and 1880, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th March, 1880.
Collected in 1880 up to February 27th,
Do. · 1879
32
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28th,
Increase,.
Stamp Office, Hongkong, 3rd March, 1880.
No. 61.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary,
$20,306.29 19,960.32
$ 345.97
ALFRED LISTER, Collector of Stamp Revenue.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to recognize provisionally and until further notice, Mr. M. JAMETEL as in charge of the French Consulate at this Port.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th March, 1830.
No. 62.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
The following Letter from the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, with the Returns annexed for the Year 1879, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th March, 1880.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
VICTORIA GAOL OFFICE, HONGKONG, 8th March, 1880.
SIR,I have the honour to forward the usual Returns for the Annual Blue Book. They consist of:--
1st.-Statistical Returns of the Prison of Hongkong for the year 1879. 2nd.-Return showing the number of Prisoners in Victoria Gaol on the last day of each work
of the year 1879.
3rd.-Return showing the Classification of Offences for which prisoners were committed to
Victoria Gaol from the respective Courts of the Colony during the year 1879.
2. Return No. 2 is of doubtful utility as it is apt to mislead as to the actual state of crime in the Colony. A comparison of the weekly averages of prisoners in Gaol at any period cannot give an ide of the increase or decrease of crime at that period, for it is a fact which I will proceed to prove that the years in which the weekly averages were largest have been those in which there was the smallest amount of crime. Take for instance the years 1872, 1876, and 1879. The respective averages of the number of prisoners confined in Victoria Gaol during these years are 519, 438, and 572; this would
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