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Marine Magistrate's Court.

The Cases before the Marine Magistrate's Court during the last 5 years were as follows:-

DEFENDANTS HOW DISPOSED OF.

287

Number Number

of

YEARS.

of Cases.

Defend- Impri-

Forfei-

ture Fined.

ants.

soned.

of

Repri- mauded.

Pay.

Sent back to Duty.

To be dis- charged

Com-

Dis-

mitted

from missed.

for

Ship.

Trial.

1884,

1885,

1886,

1887,

1888,

78

169

85

111

221

136

24

32

11

47

14

58

87

43

24

6

90

152

47

37

1422

9

3

1

11

15

3

70

167

66

38

2

2

53

Total,......

407

796

377

178

39

28

79

7

22-28

28

21

23

5

88

Average of last 5 years,

81.4

159.2

75.4

35.6

7.8

5.6

15.8

1.4

17.6

Do. ending 1883,.

85.6

166.0

66.8

33.0

13.2

5.8

18.0

2.0

26.8

Police.

The Cases brought under the notice of the Police during the last 5 years were as follows:--

SERIOUS OFFENCES.

MINOR OFFENCES.

YEARS.

Number of

Convicted.

Cases.

Discharged.

Number of Cases.

Convicted.

Discharged.

1884,

1885,

1886,

1887,

1888,

2,652

1,297

560

7,551

4.743

1,102

2,466

1,298

561

4,309

3,707

757

2,500

1,389

472

6,336

6,457

672

2,577

1,234

565

5,904

6,310

1,214

2,436

1,116

556

5,678

5,772

1,105

:

Total,.

12,631

6,334

2,714

29,778

26,989

4,850

Average of 5 years,

2,326.2

1,266.8

542.8

5,955.6

5,397.8

970.0

Do. ending 1883,

2,359.2

1,312.4

473.4

4,291.2

3,794.6

869.0

27.-HOSPITALS, &C.

Civil Hospital.

The admissions to the Government Civil Hospital during the year were as follows, as compared with 1887.

1887.

1888.

Police,

619

657

Board of Trade,

103

153

Private paying Patients,

324

313

Government Servants,

147

159

Police Cases,

208

242

Destitutes,

255

248

1,656

1,772

The total admissions to the Hospital and Deaths during the last 5 years were as follows:-

Years.

1884,

1885,

1886,

1887,

1888,

Admissions.

Deaths.

1,354

50

1,510

76

1,623

79

1,656

89

1,772

80