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which ensued several of the Europeans were stabbed by Malays, and three of them subsequently died of their wounds. A Private Soldier of the 99th Regiment who had broken out of Barracks, and who is said to have got mixed up, in some way not yet made clear, in the disturbance, and received in like manner some knife wounds of which he died on the following morning.
Prompt and vigorous measures were at once adopted by the Civil Power to discover and bring to justice the parties guilty of breaches of the peace. Every one in any way implicated in them was at once taken into custody, including the owner and inmates of the boarding house and the Malay who was supposed to have stabbed the soldier. Altogether twenty-four persons were apprehended.
The boarding house was closed, and placed in charge of Constables and a Coroner's Inquest commenced next day an investigation, which has not yet terminated, into all the circumstances of the occurrence. Unfortunately, the men of the 99th Regiment were not...