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Return of all Criminal Cases brought before Magistrates' Courts in 1904—continued.

Discharged by the Magistrate for Want of Prosecution or Want of Evidence. Classification of Summary Convictions, with the Punishments awarded. Courts. Taken into Custody, summoned, or apprehended. Dismissed on the Merits. Committed for Trial. Summi ■y Convictions. Punishments. Orders made. convicted. Offences offences a8 t a he St ' " = Person. J *"!>»*■ Drunkenness. Other Offences. Fine. Imprison- 5P ment Peremptory •*> in lieu of Imprison- a, Fine ment. -2 or Surety. jj Bound over, with or without Sureties. Lyttelton Courtenay Selwyn Ashburton .. Geraldine Timaru Waitaki Oamaiu Mount Ida Waikouaiti Chalmers Dunedin City and Caversham Taieri Bruce Clutha Tuapeka Wakatipu Mataura Awarua Invercargill Wallace M. &F. 397 27 90 186 190 538 273 420 115 84 174 2,043 M. 376 27 85 176 178 517 257 404 109 79 168 1,823 F. 21 5 10 12 21 16 16 6 5 6 220 M. 5 4 1 30 1 37 30 48 15 9 37 84 P. 2 M. 39 5 6 12 33 20 22 14 10 5 9 175 P. 2 5 5 1 9 M. 2 3 3 9 .6 14 8 5 5 1 2 46 F. 1 1 M. 330 15 75 125 138 446 197 337 79 64 120 1,518 F. 19 2 5 7 19 7 11 3 5 2 187 M. 17 4 1 2 27 3 9 4 6 2 30 F. 2 M. 25 8 6 12 50 27 15 4 8 11 100 P. 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 M. 141 28 23 40 228 80 176 19 17 59 574 P. 7 1 9 M. 147 7 37 89 96 141 87 137 52 33 48 814 F. 9 1 4 6 8 6 8 2 2 2 77 M. 132 9 43 94 112 214 115 147 41 45 89 899 P. 7 1 2 6 6 4 6 1 2 1 69 M. 25 •• 4 60 3 40 3 1 7 206 P. 3 1 M. 36 4 8 6 27 30 30 P. 1 i M. •• 2 M. 1 i •• P. 2 i M. 35 6 7 13 15 .44 34 52 23 1 2 182 P. 1 1 1 2 1 4 5 2 1 1 i i 2 1 2 21 1 5 3 80 2 2 12 e io4 29 1 28 ■•■• i 'i 29 68 113 68 285 105 247 ! 126 ] 758 157 63 107 65 266 104 222 123 701 151 5 6 3 19 25 57 6 4 6 16 15 38 12 92 17 1 i *5 5 13 6 27 10 26 3 23 11 .'2 2 1 5 2 2 5 1 13 1 •• 57 90 48 221 77 153 107 573 122 5 5 1 16 1 20 2 42 5 2 2 6 2 9 i 8 4 4 5 14 14 17 12 i 11 17 6 31 21 9 43 212 9 3 2 1 46 63 36 180 49 121 50 333 98 2 2 1 15 19 2 23 5 32 57 33 176 55 112 55 326 71 2 1 15 18 20 5 1 "6 "l 3 4 2 1 1 4 55 3 1 1 i 16 4 9 22 12 20 16 89 28 1 1 1 1 6 1 '2 1 1 9 "l 2 ii 3 1 17 is "i '3 31,503 29,004 2,499 2,499 192 2,035 198 875 32 23,595 2,077 658 35 1,725 129 8,773 930 12,439 983 12,680 744 2,307 1,774 304 35 95 36 2,659 243 2SI Note.— Of those summarily convicted, 4,003 men and 451 women were dismissed with cautions, without being sentenced to imprisonment, fine, or other punishment; and 43 men and 13 women were released under " The First Offenders' Probation Act, 1886." The number of offences (included in the table) charged against persons of the Native race was 569 : of the persons so charged, 435 were summarily convicted, 33 committed for trial or sentence, anc J01 dismissed. .