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Return showing the Number of Offences reported, Persons apprehended, and Comparison of Crime during the Year ending 31st December, 1893, and Year ending 31st December, 1894.

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1893. 1894. o »8ffl Bo 0 az, ft CD O Sac MI CD « C3 h 3 CO Persi >ns apprehended or summoned. S COT3 _Q CO CD CD stwa £ o s o 3 co ra d £ h -if'HftS o o g, EH S 0 Number of Convictions amongst those committed for Trial. Offences. C01 mitforT nDed rial. Summarily Convicted. Discharged. 0 CO e3 CD B w oi CO cd CD U CJ O n M. F. M. F. M. f. M. F. Abandoning children Abortion, procuring Absconding from apprenticeship Absconding from bail Absconding from industrial schools Abusive and threatening language Armed, with felonious intent .. Arson Arson, attempted Assaults, common Assaults, indecent Assaults occasioning bodily harm Assaults on baliffs Assaults on police Assaults and robbery Bankruptcy offences Begging Bestiality Bigamy Breaches of the peace Burglary, breaking into shops, dwellings, &c. Being in possession of housebreaking implements Carnally knowing girls Carnally knowing, attempted .. Cattle- and horse-stealing (see theft). Cattle-maiming Coinage offences Concealment of birth Conspiring to defraud Contempt of Court Cruelty to animals Cruelty to children Cutting and wounding.. Damaging police uniform Demanding goods with menaces Deserting and failing to provide for wives and children Deserters and stragglers from H.M. ships Deserting merchant vessels Discharging fire-arms Disobeying orders on board ships Disobeying orders of Court and summonses Disobeying terms of release under Pirst Offenders' Probation Act Disorderly and riotous conduct Distillation offences Distributing obscene literature .. Disturbing meetings and congregations Drunkenness Embezzlement Enchantment, pretended Escaping from custody Escaping from custody, abetting Escaping from lunatic asylums.. Failing to support parents and near relatives False declarations False pretences False trade-marks Fish, illegally taking Forcible entry Forgery and uttering Fortune-telling Furious riding and driving Game, illegally shooting Gaming offences Illegally on premises Indecent exposure and behaviour Keeping disorderly, houses and brothels Killing animals with intent to steal the carcases Libel, criminal 2—H. 28. 3 4 1 19 5 105 3 17 9 1 181 21 i 3 4 4 34 248 34 5 684 23 46 74 36 13 5 2 1 239 261 1 1 1 2 24 254 1 30 7 689 34 22 2 65 38 47 9 326 395 3 7 3 11 1 10 11 1 98 5 22 15 319 32 6 2 22 9 14 24 108 6 3 2 ~8 14 *2 i h "i i "2 24 142 1 403 4 4 1 62 8 8 266 39 3 "l 3 1 81 3 2 15 146 26 1 2 6 12 19 1 1 2 *4 2 l 76 6 232 6 7 1 15 13 1 53 30 1 1 16 "$ 125 3 24 30 3 1 *2 i 'i 3 1 7 11 1 98 5 22 15 287 29 "1 2 24 254 1 12 3 684 32 21 2 65 29 45 9 326 187 3 7 3 "3 1 'l6 7 10 11 '74 4 2 2 "8 "9 i "l "2 6 1 2 5 11 '2 2 34 4 87 134 3 6 3 8 9 2 5 6 138 11 2 2 4 10 i 24 9 2 1 3 8 4 7 i 11 14 25 252 10 14 47 219 6 7 42 136 7 5 70 6 14 47 208 22 i *2 33 5 4 2 2 4 2 1 125 2 2 82 198 5 9 55 148 1 6 40 19 "i 30 4 2 14 1 198 5 9 54 73 3 7 27 5,251 56 4,594 39 2 6 1 4 100 22 1 3,702 12 769 110 5 13 4,594 39 2 6 1 4 97 '20 657 17 i 2 "6 "5 i '1 i 1 "i 1 'i 31 "5 131 "3 64 32 7 145 6 179 8 5 37 3 73 6 4 2 3 46 2 1 i 6 159 8 5 '29 34 8 5 1 "l 69 i 104 6 58 25 13 127 101 62 74 1 6 5 i io i 92 6 58 25 43 127 99 62 '(30 '4 35 6 7 9 20 27 15 34 51 16 23 100 86 28 i 51 23 32 85 83 10 1 15 4 20 7 2 8 24 10 6 l 3 2 13 i 12 "l 'ii 3 3 i 2 3 2 2 2 2 1