*.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1870.
Appendix E.
CA14195 Penishments inflicted on Members of the FORCE by the JUDICIAL, and POLICE DEPARTMENTS, during the Year 1809.
114
by Magistrates.
PUNISHMENTS INFLICNED
Departmental.
193
Total.
Average per man
Imprisonment.
Number of Persons Convicted.
C.
Years. Days. S
C.
Years. Days. S
S c. Years. Days.
c. Days.
1
31201
કોન
2
1 70
5
1
8829
5 160 50
38
::
210 440 45
60
449 90
+5
180
271 10
10
$4
30
183
::::
6
7
1
9
1
7 278 50
10
115 1353 45
•
113
3: 299
37 609 95
247
32
487 90
92
44
341 10
224
193
4
30
10 0 30.
5 35 2.2 2 36 0.4 10 18.6
93 7.2
1631) 95
10
228 2 56 6.0
* One-Imprisonment for life. + One-
do. for 5 years, Larceny.
+ One-
do.
for 3 years, Perjury,
**** BARRACKS, 24th March, 1870.
C. VANDELEUR CREAGH,
Acting Captain Superintendent of Police.
APPENDIX F.
CENTRAL SCHOOL, February 14th, 1870.
1 fa compliance with your request, I beg to sromit the following Report on the Police School, for the year ended 31st
1860.
I. The classes were opened on the 1st October 1860.
Present.
Europeans, Indians,
Chinese,
Total,.
8
21
22
51
Within a fortnight, these numbers increased to
Europeans, Indians,
02
47
Chinese,
32
Total,..
.101
3. At first an endeavour was made to teach each race apart, but owing to the diversity of the men's attainments, the * my disposal,-which under ordinary circuinstances was ample,-would not admit of it.
the 14th October, the most advanced of the Indians and Chinese were sent into the Europeans' Class. The Euro- geted to their being there, asserting that to have to sit at the same table with Indians and Chinese, would lower the eyes of these people. Argument having failed to convince them to the contrary, they left almost in a body. At the end of the year they had fallen off to 4.
Sf the Indians, as Pupils, I cannot speak too highly. If I may use such an expression, most of them are “greedy” tion. This is shown in many ways; for instance they carry their book always with them, so as to occupy their e in reading. Whenever they can make friends with any of the European children, they embrace the opportunity of #7 a lesson from them. Consequently their progress, for the time they have been under instruction, is considerable.
number of Indians attending School on the 31st December was 42.
The Chinese class has greatly disappointed ine.
At the beginning, I was inclined to believe it would have been a arreas it has been just the contrary. Two causes have produced this effect:
The men were under the impression that English could be acquired with very little labour on their part. As a rule foot care to learn either Reading or Writing, but wished to be taught "pidgin English." This of course could not
And with, consequently some left.
At the end of the year a reduction was made, in the number of Chinese employed in the Police Force. Some of the ading school were among the number discharged.
At the end of the year the number in the Chinese class was reduced to 10.
3- Attendance on the 31st December, 1809:
Europeans,
Indians, Chinese,
Total,.
4
42
10
56.
The Class Rooms are large, well ventilated, and well lit with gas.
2 The School Materials, which have been borrowed from the Government Central School, are good.
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