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RETURN showing the NUMBER of PERSONS and CASES brought before the POLICE COURTS in the AUCKLAND DISTRICT by the ARMED CONSTABULARY, from 1st JANUARY, 1874, to 31st DECEMBER, 1874.

ABBESTS. Total Number of Convictions. Number Total Total S__tMONSES. Total Number. Number Convicted. Number Discharged. BB__B_S. ___KS. Nature of Offences. Cases. M. F. M. 1 2 F. ■Convicted. Discharged Nature of Offence. Absconding Witnesses Arms Act Armed Constabulary Act ... Assault, Common Assault on Police Assault, indictable Bestiality Bigamy Breaking and Entering Warehouses Breach of the Peace Burglary Coinage Act Concealment of Birth Customs Regulation Act ... Disobeying Summonses Destitute Persons Relief Ordinance Drunkenness 3 2 1 67 46 5 1 1 6 4 1 2 1 3 2 4 1,090 3 2 1 61 46 5 1 1 6 4 1 2 , . ... "6 2 1 43 44 1 1 "4 ... 18 2 4 ... "2 ... 2 1 47 44 1 1 1 2 20 2 4 Abusive Language Breach of the Peace ... City By-Laws Customs Regulations ... Dangerous Groods Act Destitute Persons Relief Ordinance Dog Nuisance Act Drunkenness Foreign Seamen's Act... Harbour Regulations ... Impounding Act Inciting to Commit Assault Licensing Act Marine Storekeepers Act Malicious Injury to Property Act Medical Practitioners Act Municipal Police Act... Neglected and Criminal Children's Act Public Health Act ... Protection of Animals Act Quartz Crushing Regulations Rural Police Act Slaughter-house Act ... Vagrant Act... Larceny 4 2 188 2 2 12 41 29 2 1 7 3 2 163 1 8 35 28 2 1 6 l 25 1 2 4 6 1 148 of this I number of cases were committed in the City of Au ckland, and the remainder at the Thames. "l "l 6 3 1 ... "l ... ... 6 3 1 "l "2 "2 1 3 2 4 926 i 1 "2 1 1 2 3 1,060 1 2 3 899 1 25 ... "2 1 30 ', 788 were first convictions, remainder reconvictions. 187 were first convictions, remainder were reconvictions. 1 52 3 "25 1 27 3 164 161 "5 Drunk and Disorderly Embezzlement ... Forgery and Uttering Foreign Seamen's Act Gaolers and Prisoners Act Horse and Cattle Stealing Housebreaking ... Indecent Assault Illegally Pawning Incendiarism ... Larceny, indictable Larceny, summary Lunacy Manslaughter Master and Apprentices Act Merchant Shipping Act ... Municipal Police Act Malicious Injury to Property Act ... Murder Naval Training Schools Act Naval Discipline Act Neglected and Criminal Children's Act Obtaining Money by False Pretences Passengers Act ... Perjury Railways Regulation Act ... Receiving Stolen Property Resident Magistrates Act Robbery with Violence Shooting with Intent to Murder Threatening Language L'nnatural Offence Vagrant Act 207 12 1 38 3 10 2 2 2 7 9 232 55 2 2 80 5 53 2 5 23 56 11 5 1 4 1 2 1 1 25 3 250 183 12 38 3 10 2 2 1 4 7 214 43 2 2 80 4 52 2 5 23 39 11 5 1 4 1 1 1 1 22 3 168 24 180 11 1 38 3 6 1 22 I 3 1 2 202 11 38 3 6 1 5 ] 1 10 5 5 ... 1 204 1 178 "26 ... ... ... ... 18 18 17 7 1 11 ... 4 1 2 4 1 2 1 3 2 18 12 1 "l 2 16 10 6 5 147 33 2 1 16 11 4 2 66 10 3 1 3 1 6 163 44 2 7 3 69 11 5 12 2 60 3 3 9 2 49 O 2 3 11 3 - 2 19 1 7 ... 2 19 1 7 "l 1 61 3 45 2 5 22 34 8 2 1 1 ... ... 61 4 46 2 5 22 51 8 2 ... "l 1 5 3 3 1 1 1 1 "l7 j 17 3 3 1 1 1 "5 ... "3 I » 3 ... "l '"3 1 1 15 147 1 ... , 1 1 7 2 23 1 " _ 1 1 1 16 1 210 9 2 40 82 63 "l7 Totals ... . - I 2,351 1 I 2,015 1 J 1 1 1 I 336 I 1,786 ! 300 I 223 i 2,086 265 42 Totals ... 695 555 140 Note.— This Return does not include the number of prisoners arrested in the Waikato, Tauranga, and Poverty Bay Districts. T. Beoham. Insi lector, Armed Constabular