24 CEIMINAL STATISTICS. 



should add that they are exclusive of the Chinese and aboriginal 



population, namely :— 

 Population, 285,010— 



Read and write 227,313= 79-76 per cent. 



Bead only 27,541= 9-67 „ 



Not read 30,156=: 1057 „ 



285,010 = 10000 „ 

 Prisoners in gaol, 8,954 — 



Read and write 4,698 = 52'47 per cent. 



Readonly 1,972= 2202 „ 



Not read 2,284 = 25-50 „ 



8,954 = 10000 „ 

 Summary jurisdiction, 18,025 — 



Read and write 13,664= 75-81 per cent. 



Readonly 1,259= 6 98 „ 



Not read ;. 3,102= 17-21 „ 



18,025 = 10000 „ 



We have here another picture presenting somewhat different 

 features to those which have been exhibited before. "We here 

 see that of the ages from fifteen upwards there were by the 

 Census a proportion of the population who had received more or 

 less instruction reaching 89-43 per cent., and of the uninstructed 

 10-57 per cent. ; whilst of the prisoners in gaols it appears that 

 the proportions Avere — of those more or less instructed 74'49 per 

 cent, and of the uninstructed 25-51 per cent. And as regards the 

 summary jurisdiction cases, the returns exhibit a proportion of 

 those more or less instructed amounting to 82'79 per cent., and 

 of the uninstructed 17'21 per cent. 



Now, in surveying these figures, one cannot help being struck 

 with the overwhelming proportion of the educated classes dealt 

 with summarily in the retty Session Courts, and the small pro- 

 portion of the uneducated ; for when we reflect upon the 

 habitual drunkards and vagrants who are laid hold of by the 

 police, and appear again and again in the police lists, one might 

 have expected the figures to have been reversed — it would not, 

 at all events, have filled me Avith surprise to have found it so. 



But to proceed with our inquiry and to satisfy the possible 

 objection to the exclusion of so large a proportion of the youthful 

 population as has been done in the foregoing calculation, I will 

 take the figures' of the Census from five years old and upwards, 

 and compare them with the criminal returns The results are as 

 follows : — 



Summary 

 Ce^i^UB. Gaols. Jurisdiction. 



Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. 



Read and write 70 52 76 



Readonly 13 22 7 



Not read 17 26 17 



