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riage tie, though greatly diminished, should reach the number 

 of 384, while under the head " Deserting Husbands and 

 Wives," 67 convictions are recorded. For "practising medi- 

 cine without a licence," 56 persons were punished ; for " furious 

 riding," 197 ; for " cruelty to animals," 37; for "gaming," 121 ; 

 for "gross cheating," 32; for "violating the Sabbath," 61. 

 We must remember that the returns include foreigners and 

 Chinamen, or else the reputation for " harmlessness " which 

 Hawaiians possess would suffer seriously when we read that 

 within the last two years there were 178 convictions for 

 "assault," 248 for " assault and battery," 12 for " assaults with 

 dangerous weapons," 49 for " affray," 674 for " drunkenness," 

 87 for " disturbing quiet of the night," and 13 for "murder." 

 Yet the number of criminal cases has largely diminished, and 

 taking civil and criminal together, there has been a decrease of 

 656 for the last biennial period, as compared with that imme- 

 diately preceding it. 



The administration of justice is confessedly one of the most 

 efficient departments of Hawaiian affairs. Chief Justice Allen, 

 both as a lawyer and a gentleman, is worthy to fill the highest 

 position in his native country (America), and the Associate 

 Justices, as well as the native and foreign judges throughout 

 the islands, are highly esteemed for honour and uprightness. I 

 never heard an uttered suspicion of venality or unfairness against 

 anyone of them, and apparently the Judiciary Department of 

 Hawaii deserves the same confidence which we repose in our 

 own. 



The Educational System has been carefully modelled, and is 

 carried out with tolerable efficiency. Eighty-seven per cent, of 

 the whole school population are actually at school, and the in- 

 spector of schools states that a person who cannot read and 

 write is rarely met with. Each common school is graded into 

 two, three, or four classes, according to the intelligence and 

 proficiency of the pupils, and the curriculum of study is as 

 follows : — 



Class I. — Reading, mental and written arithmetic, geo- 

 graphy, penmanship, and composition. 



Class II. — Reading, mental arithmetic, geography, pen- 

 manship. 



Class III. — Reading, first principles of arithmetic, pen- 

 manship. 



Class IV. — Primer, use of slate and pencil. 



