POLICE RETURNS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1159, 14 February 1874, Page 6

POLICE RETURNS.

Subjoined is a return of arrests made by the Police in Otago during the month of January, 1874 :— Male*. Females. Assaults (common) 4 0 Do on Police 7 0 Breaches of the Peace 9 0 Burglary ... 1 0 Drunkenness ... 130 14 Disorderly conduct 11 1 Damaging property 2 0 Escaping from legal custody ..1 0 Habitual drunkenness 1 0 Indecent exposure 1 0 Illegally on premises . ... 5 0 Larceny 15 0 Da from a dwelling 2 0 Lunacy "9 1 Manslaughter ..1 I Making false declarations 1 0 Master and Servants Act 1 0 Neglected and criminal ohildren... 4 0 Obscene language 2 0 Perjury 1 0 Resisting the Police 2 0 Ship desertion 8 0 Breach Shipping Act 3 0 Threatening language 2 0 Vagrancy 1 3 Wife desertion 2 0 Total .. ..226 20

Somerelicsof poor humanitjthey were found other day at the point of Deborah Bay, Port Chalmers, where the prisoners are cutting the new road. The excavation where the road goes x'ound the point of the bay is rather high on the one side, and oh nearly at the top of it, in the loamy surface soil, a complete skeleton was discovered. The bones were huddled together — evidently the rites of sepulture bestowed upon the corpse to which they belonged were hurried and primitive, for there was not the slightest vestige of coffin or grave-clothes ; the body had just been deposited anyhow in a hole scraped to retain it. This fact, together with the formation of the skull, forehead low, and retreating jaws, point with tolerable distinctness to the Maori descent of the being to whom the skeleton was once a habitation. Some of the hones are considerably decomposed, whilst others aie in a good state of preservation, "but from their general appearance it is inferred that they had been in earth's keeping for nearly a century ; also, that the skeleton is that of a female— thia conclusion being led to by the formation of the upper part of the thigh-bones and the small size of the skeleton generally — whilst the worn teeth indicate that the owner of the bones had reached her full term of years. The skeleton was carefully gathered together and removed to the Police Camp, where it was viewed during the afternoon by many carious in such wafers,