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Return showing the Number of Offences reported, Persons Apprehended, and Comparison of Crime during the Year ending 31st December, 1894, and Year ending 31st December, 1895.

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1894. 1895. m 0. So o 3_ ft o 111 ".a o Persons a] iprehended or summoned, is _, _j o c_ o a. g a -j fl 0 O fl O Summarily D13- a « j p Convicted. charged. «M| 1r _M i +i *y Ai _, o 0 a M. F. M. F. 6< *o Number of Convictions amongst those committed for Trial. Offences. Committed for Trial. Summarily Convicted. o Ol cV A O a r-i ffli o P M. j F. m. F. M. F. Abandoning children Abduction 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 bailiffs 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 chidren Cutting and wounding.. Damaging police uniform Defiling an imbecile woman 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 First Offenders' Probation Act Disorderly and riotous conduct.. Dissuading witness from giving evidence 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 l "i 2 4 3 8 4 4 2 1 1 2 3 3 8 1 "2 3 3 7 "2 24 254 1 30 7 689 34 22 2 65 38 47 9 4 42 235 2 21 10 765 15 42 2 57 42 46 9 1 5 270 458 40 125 2 1 15 4 1 07 4 42 234 2 10 1 754 10 37 2 57 29 42 8 1 3 269 203 4 18 27 1 19 4 '2 1 4 2 3 76 9 1 6 18 '2 469 1 5 1 47 1 7 8 20 232 3 12 1 5 12 9 32 1 1 8 2 20 19 1 15 26 i 3 1 8 22 4 '8 i 1 i i 2 1 56 27 "l 1 i 5 326 395 124 i 206 46 6 2 i 3 106 "l 63 56 3 5 1 3 1 5 1 2 7 3 5 5 5 3 2 3 11 1 10 11 1 98 5 22 15 7 16 1 2 2 1 3 3 "2 15 4 8 9 145 8 10 24 1 1 479 i 1 7 100 3 1 22 8 9 145 8 10 24 1 1 448 6 10 3 4 1 8 1 1 40 2 1 1 1 i 8 47 3 '2 "l 7 "2 12 1 1 1 9 1 1 160 319 297 13 127 io 1 32 71 60 1 61 39 10 14 47 219 7 13 50 191 4 9 47 137 2 3 33 4 11 50 170 3 3 1 28 4 3 3 3 1 198 217 1 1 183 11 21 2 217 1 1 19 1 5 9 55 1 1 1 4 9 *72 '51 21 72 17 4,594 39 2 6 1 4 100 4,636 23 °4 3,761 15 829 42 2 4 4,636 21 42 16 2 4 7 "2 4 'i "l "l 1 i 7 153 "7 81 59 i "7 141 3 53 6 179 8 5 104 6 58 25 43 127 101 2 154 1 21 7 91 4 80 18 76 104 92 20 1 59 9 2 77 '20 1 1 71 13 60 82 70 5 "2 33 1 7 8 i 1 2 135 1 21 7 78 4 78 18 76 104 85 2 23 '45 "8 16 7 4 25 7 13 2 7 5 14 14 8 22 h 2 8 7 33 23 9