Useful for historians and students of colonial law and colonial administration, Hong Kong (China) legal and social history. Edited, annotated transcription of newspaper reports of magistrate's court cases at a lively period in Hong Kong history; analysis and background documentation of specific offences, detailed references to historical Ordinances, and detailed new index. Illuminates the interface and parallels between the establishment of a colonial education system and the introduction of colonial law. Extends our knowledge and understanding of nineteenth century Hong Kong family, social and street life, law, policing, and court practice. Provides information about hundreds of individuals (Police Inspectors, Constables, Sergeants, informers, interpreters, detectives). Throws additional light on the Irish Roman Catholic Governor of the time, John Pope Hennessy and the Founder of Hong Kong Government Education, Frederick Stewart, first Headmaster of the Hong Kong Government Central School for Boys (now Queen's College). Preface by Kemal Bokhary.