In point of numbers, I am happy to be able to say, as you are probably aware already, that it contrasts favourably with all the calendars with which I have had to deal since I sat here ag Judge. I think there never were fewer than twenty-five or twenty-six persona for trial. On the present oc casion there are twenty-one, and that number is re duced to twenty by the omission to forward in time the depositions in one case. There are twenty pri soners, although there are twenty-three or twenty four charges, one or two of the prisoners being charged with more than one or two offences. I shall divide the offences in the manner in. which I have classified them on pre vious occasions— offences against the public, offences against the person, and offences against pro perty. You will find there are three cases of offences against the public — two for escape, and one under the Arms Act ; one offence against the penon — a charge of rape ; all the other cases are offences against property. In directing your attention to offences against property, I wish to refer particularly to the cases of forgery or uttering forged cheques. Out of the twenty cases on the calendar, there are no fawer, I am sorry to say, than five or six cases of uttering forged cheques. Notwith standing all I thought it my duty to say on the first occasion I presided here, and notwithstanding all his Worship the Eesident Magistrate also thought it his duty to say on that subject, it still seems to be only too easy for any person presenting a cheque after or before bank hours, by way of payment for goods, to get the goods and the change that may remain. I cannot help repeating what I have said on a former occasion, that while it does not at all diminish the crime of those who so utter false cheques, it really almost does serve those people right who will let people have goods and money in such a way. 