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FELONIES NOT ALREADY GIVEN.

9. Under this heading are comprised the following:

Arson and attempted arson,..

Attempt to wreck a tram car,

Sodomy,

Cutting and Wounding,.

Demanding money by menaces,

Detaining for ransom,

Embezzlement, .....

Forgery,

Housebreaking,.

Manslaughter,

Shooting and Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily

harm,

Throwing corrosive fluid,

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GAMBLING.

10. Ninety-eight Gainbling Warrants were executed and convictions obtained, as against 70 in 1904; 3 being lottery cases.

In 23 cases no gambling was found. It is not easy to say whether these figures in- dicate a great increase in gambling or only that the Police have been more successful in obtaining information.

PROPERTY REPORTED STOLEN and PropeRTY RECOVERED.

11. The value of the property reported stolen during the year was $258,736.18. Of this sum, $109,186 comes under the category of larcenies by bailees, i.e., thefts and frauds by trusted servants (clerks, shroffs, compradores, etc.), a class of crime which police cannot pre- vent and in which, owing to the ease with which the offenders can escape from the Colony and the difficulty of tracing them, it is very hard to obtain arrests and convictions. The sums so stolen are sometimes very large. There were two such thefts of $52,000 and $20.210 respectively from a Bank, and eight others of $1,000 and upwards, including one of $13,000, from other persons.

The value of the property recovered by the Police and restored to owners was $47,622.80.

LOST PROPERTY.

12. The following is a return showing property lost or recovered during the year 1905:-

Articles reported Value lost.

lost.

Articles recovered and Articles found which were not re- ported lost.

Value found.

249

$9,810.27

117

$2,587

OPIUM WARRANTS.

13. Three thousand nine hundred and fifty-one (3,951) Search Warrants for prepared opium were executed by the Police and Excise Officers of the Opium Farmer, as compared with 2,444 in 1904. In 1,109 cases opium was found and 1,419 persons were arrested.