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about land in which the Nong-Ban people were involved with the neighboring clan of the surname Ching belonging to the village of Mui-hum, by whom the Kong people were oppressed in the matter. Numbers of people were wounded by the Mui-Lum party, until the late Magistrate of this district proceeded in person to the spot and restored order, calling upon the gentry and elders to settle the dispute by arbitration. Between the Mui-kum people agreed. They $300 as medical expenses to the other party, but, in consequence of excessive demand by the
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inhabitants of Bun Diem, they carried off certain of the latter and held them in confinement, with the design of compelling settlement of the disputes, and fetched over only $100 of the stipulated compensation. The Wan clan of Lun Tin were obliged to submit and swallow their feelings of resentment, without divesting their mind of hostile sentiments, and on the 30th of January last both parties met at the Market town of Shum Chun, where a quarrel arose over the new year's purchases, and the old dispute broke out again. The Wan clan hereupon