The Captain Superintendent of Police then reported:—
"An observant person of some years' residence ina casual drive round the Settlement or walla the" principal Streets cannot but be" struck" by the extraordinary growth of houses—houres larger and' of finer architecture than formeniyntne. enormous area., over which these new houses are springing Upon the. Settiement's_outekirts, the rear growth in the native population the Increase In numbers and Narlety of the foreign residences.. He Will, moreover, be aware of the large Increase in freights which are Gischarged into this district dally from fecean and. Fiver steamer, launches, Ait this and Checked: how any criminal who once cecapes the hands of Justice can ever Sevpuled out from this human whi One thousand men, all told, that is tone policeman in every five acres, or 30 mow, and to every 465 head ' of ppopiilation stood guard over the lives and property of half a million
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