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Enclosure 9. Inspector Bboham to the Commissioneb, Armed Constabulary Force. Sic, — Constabulary Office, Auckland, 3rd June, 1874. In compliance with the instructions contained in Circular No. 47, of the sth June, 1871, I have the honor to report upon the Constabulary of this district during the past year. I attach a statistical return of crime for the year 1873 ; the estimate of the cost of police for the ensuing year I have already sent to you. The total number of persons arrested during the year 1873, as will be seen by the return, was 2,385. Of these, 1,292 were charged with drunkenness, 233 with being drunk and disorderly, 218 with breaches of the Vagrant Act, such as having no visible lawful means of support, using obscene language in public, habitual drunkenness, &c. ; 70 were charged with common assaults, 35 with assaults on the police, 187 with petty larceny, 53 with lunacy, 3 with murder, 2 with attempting to murder, 7 with manslaughter, 6 with breaking and entering houses, 4 with indecent assaults, 6 with incendiarism, 36 under the Neglected and Criminal Children's Act, and the remainder with various offences enumerated in the record. There were also 683 persons summoned by the Police for breaches of the City by-laws, Municipal laws, Licensing Acts, &c. A comparison of the criminal statistics of last year with those of 1872, shows a decrease in the number of arrests of a total of 321, which was caused principally by the charges of drunkenness having been less by 258 than they were during 1872; but, as regards all other offences, a very slight variation has occurred either in the number or classification, during the last three years, although crimes with 3—H. 12.

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