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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH OCTOBER, 1879.

Kéung A-t'ò, of Nám-hoi, shopman, aged thirty-

nine years, was convicted of purchasing a female

.child" named Sin Hing, for the purposes of pros-

titution; and Li A-tak, of San-úi, widow, aged

fifty-four years, was convicted of selling the same child for the like purposes. The prisoners were

each sentenced to eighteen calendar months' im- prisonment with hard labour.

Before passing sentence in the last three cases

referred to, the Chief Justice remarked at great

length upon the large increase in this Colony of the traffic in women and children, either for pur-

poses of so called domestic slavery or for prosti- tution. His Honour alluded in the course of his remarks to certain misconceptions which seemed to exist, as to the law applicable to such crimes here and concluded by stating:-That to sell or to buy, or to hold, or detain a man, a woman, or a child as a slave, or as property, is absolutely prohibited by the law of England, which law is imported into and forms the substance of the law

of Hongkong, by virtue of Ordinances No. 6 of 1845, and No. 12 of 1873.

W. H. Mossop,

Acting Deputy Registrar.

MAGISTRACY, HONGKONG,

27th October, 1879.

Summary of cases deserving notice decided at

the Magistracy of Hongkong, from the 18th to 24th October, 1879, both days inclusive.

Larcenies.

2. T'sü A-t'ong, a coolie, was convicted of stealing on the 21st instant, several pieces of clothing the property of Ü A-yáu, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. He was further convicted of stealing some clothing and sentenced to a further term of three months' imprisonment with hard labour.

2. Ch'an A-chan, a coolie, was, on the 22nd instant, convicted of stealing three pairs of trousers the property of Fung A-shing, and sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment with hard labour.

3. Léung A-on, a chair coolie, was, on the 22nd instant, convicted of stealing a chair the property of Sham A-shing, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour, and was ordered to pay $6 amends to the said Sham A-shing, in default, to be further imprisoned for six weeks with hard labour.

4. Wan A-kwai, a coolie, was, on the 24th instant, convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, the first and last fourteen days to be in solitary confinement and the rest with hard labour, and the day previous to his release to be publicly exposed in the stocks for six hours in

front of the Hung-hòm Dock gates for stealing

a piece of iron the property of the Hongkong and

Whampoa Dock Company. The accused was identified as an old offender.

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