-22.
General Sargent thought it proper to Military should attend
direct that the e
dierine service yesterday armed, as it was considered possible, if not probable;
• that a rush might have been wade
on the barracks to secure the arms
during the absence of the Froops at Church.
13.
The Police under Captain Dempster have exhibited great forbearance and firmness and only
one death has been reported, that
of
a Chinese who has been killed either
by
a bullet or
by
a stone thrown from
of
the
the upper story of a houve : Some
429 23.
the rioters, it is presumed, have been wounded by the Police, but, if so, they have been conveyedt away by friends,
14.
their
and have not been found.
My opinion is that the Government must be clothed with larger
powers to enable it to get rid
· of notoriously bad characters of whom there are at the present moment a large number in the Colony, reposted
to have come.
conce from
Cauton and r
Tochow, from which places they have fled in consequence of stops taken by the Authorities. Throve people
are known to the Police, bret
long
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