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afterwards did the same to the woman and one child. The boy was rescued, but the woman and child were drowned and their bodies subsequently recovered. The sampan was navigated to Lantao Island where the men abandoned it. The two children remaining in it were found and cared for by some villagers who took them to Cheung Chau Police Station. The 3 men after wandering about some days on Lantao Island got across to Castle Peak and walked to Ping Shan where they were arrested. All three were convicted of murder and hanged.

With reference to the last paragraph under the head "Murder" of last year's report, it is satisfactory to record that the murderer CHEUNG CHO TING was arrested by the Chinese Authorities at Canton. He was tried at Canton, convictel of murder, and executed there on the 4th May.

MANSLAUGHTER.

5. On the 15th January, PANG LUNG, aged 48, of Fan Ling Village in the Sheung Shui District, N. T., was arrested by Indian Police Constable 644 on the road outside the village for depositing a child of tender age on the road. The child died of exposure. PANG LUNG, the father, and his wife were tried at the Criminal Sessions on a charge of manslaughter, convicted, and sent to gaol for 6 months' hard labour.

On the 27th February, LI KUN SANG, aged 27, one of a party of 12 persons, who were fishing in a stream near Hang Tao, San Tin District, N. T., had a dispute over the right of fishing and came to blows which resulted in the death of LI KUN SANG two days later. Two ladis named MAN KUM SHING. aged 17, and MAN CHAU SHING, aged 13, were arrested and charged with manslaughter. They were both discharged at the Criminal Sessions by proclamation.

On the 18th May, a disturbance between two parties of men took place in a. house at No. 15 Moon Street. A man named CHIK SHUN, aged 35, who was in the house, was assaulted by one of the men named Ho YAU SANG who struck him with a bamboo pole. CHIK SHUN died from the result of his injuries. Ho YAU SANG was arrested, convicted at the Criminal Sessions and sentence.1 to 5 years' imprisonment with hard labour.

On the 31st May, CHAN FUK, aged 37, boatman, employed on board a dust boat, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from a wound on the top of his head which resulted in his death. It appears that the boatinen refused to allow a number of painters and scrapers to cross the dust boat to get on shore, when both parties engaged in a fight. One man was arrestel and dis- charged by the Police Magistrate,

On the 16th August, a lad named LAU CHEUNG, aged 5, who was detained in an Emigration house at No. 121 Des Voeux Road West, jumped from one of the upper floors and fell into the street. He was found by Indian Police Constable 587 in a dying condition and died on the way to Hospital. Three men were arrested, charged, and convicted at the Criminal Sessions for unlawfully detaining persons, for the purpose of emigration.

On the 10th September, two lads, apprentice tailors, named CHAN LUN, aged 17, and CHIU KIT CHEONG, aged 20, were skylarking in a shop at No. 297 Queen's Road Central, when the latter picked up a pair of scissors and threw it at the former, striking him in the abdomen and causing injuries from which he died two days later. CHIU KIT CHEONG absconded after the death of CHAN LUN. No report was made to the l'olice until the 12th September, when one of the men in the shop made au application to the Police for a burial certificate.

On the 15th September, Süs Fo, aged 40, licensed vehicle driver No. 801, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from injuries; he said that he was kicked by a European Constable while sitting in his vehicle at the foot of Possession Street on the 14th September. An identification was held but he failed to identify any one. He died in the Hospital on the following day; the cause of death being a ruptured spleen. No arrest made.