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content to await particularly the result of this investigation, but determined to avenge the Death of their comrade by taking the law into their own hands; accordingly a large body of them - variously estimated in number by different witnesses at from 150 to 300 - armed with sticks, proceeded on Tuesday evening, the 13th, to the Chinese quarter of the town, where they commenced their depredations by attacking two most respectable Sailors' boarding houses in Lascar Row; houses which were in no way connected with the disturbances of the previous night - and which were not even situated in the same street. There houses the soldiers broke into and thoroughly gutted, throwing the fittings, furniture, and clothing into the Street, and beating severely the inmates, six of whom were sent to hospital.
A sum of $300 in notes is stated to have been robbed from the Master of one of the houses, and damage to a large amount was done to both buildings, for which compensation has been demanded by the owners.
The rioters then proceeded to the boarding house