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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH APRIL, 1879.

MAGISTRACY, HONGKONG,

28th April, 1879.

Summary of cases deserving notice decided at

the Magistracy of Hongkong, from the 19th to

the 25th April, 1879, both days inclusive.

Breach of "the Victoria Registration Ordinance (No.7 of 1866).”

1. Chéung A-sám, a trader, was on the 22nd day of April convicted of attempting to use a certificate of registration belonging to another

person whilst offering himself as security for a

prisoner at the Magistracy, and fined $5 or two days' imprisonment.

Breach of the "Public Gambling Amendment Ordinance, 1876.'

"

2. Ng A-luk, a rice-pounder, and Chau A-kan, a chair coolie, were on the 21st instant convicted of keeping a public gambling house in No. 15, first floor, Wán-tsai Road. Ng A-luk was fined $150 or four months' imprisonment with hard

labour; and Chau A-kan, who was recognised as having been previously convicted and punished for larceny, was fined $200 or six months' im- prisonment with hard labour.

3. Au A-kau, a copper smith, and nineteen

others were convicted of haunting and being found in the above gambling house, and each fined $25

or one month's imprisonment with hard labour. Personating a Police Constable.

4. Chiú A-ts'ung, a broker, was on the 19th instant convicted and fined $30 in default three

months' imprisonment with hard labour for per- sonating a Police Constable.

Breach of the "Night Passes Ordinance, 1870." •

5. Ho Tung-ts'oi, a prostitute, and Ho A-i, à

servant, of the “ Ying-héung” Brothel, were each convicted and fined half a dollar for being at large in the public streets at night without passes, on the 22nd instant.

Larceny from the person.

6. James Cooney and Thomas Coyle, soldiers of H. M.'s 27th Regiment, were convicted and sentenced on the 23rd instant to six months' im-

prisonment with hard labour each for stealing

twenty-three cents from the person of a milkman,. who had gone to the barracks to sell milk.

Larceny.

7. Ün A-kong, a hawker, was convicted and

sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard

labour, on the 25th instant, for stealing a pair of shoes, the property of one Ch'an A-kam. The accused was identified as an old offender.

Disorderly behaviour.

8. Fung A-sz, a mat-packer, and Wong A-tsoi, a hawker, were convicted on the 19th instant for creating a disturbance at the door of the Opium Farm at Bonhan Strand. West, and fined $15 in default twenty-one days' imprisonment each with hard labour, and in addition thereto to be each publicly exposed in the stocks for six hours at the scene of the offence.

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