the neck of his steed, and thus evading the storm of missiles, he set spurs to the pony and dashed among the crowd; round and round he went in an increasing circle, i knocking the mob over like nine pins. Ho must have bowled over a very great number of them, and with the pouy trampling over the prostrate men, many must have been a good deal hart. The pony behaved splendidly, and seemed imbued with the same spirit as its rider, tearing might and main in among the thick of the crowd, over numerous obstructions. This man certain. ly did good work by his excellent horsemanship, and he had several bruises from missiles about flan free.
Huile this was going on, the crowd, which xtended right away along Queen's-road, past the European taverns which abound in that i quarter, had not been idle, but had been pelting any European they could see, or any unfortun- ate chair or jínricksha coolie who showed him. self unwilling to act upon the mandates of the strikers by taking work. Some Europeans took refuge in the public-houses, which were also as- sailed by the mob with missiles, and most of them had to be hastily closed up. All up the various streets connecting Queen's-road with Holly. wood-road to Gap-street the mob extended, and some constables about those parts were roughly handled. Sergeant Kamp was reinforced at bis lively post at the junction of Queen's- road and Gap-street, soon after the telegram for help reached the Central Station, by a good body of Sikh constables under Inspector Perry. As fast as the riot was quieted in one dirontion it broke out in another, and throe different tele- grams were sent to the Central Station up to eleven o'clock for more police, until the Station was completely drained of mon, some of whom were posted near the "Land We Live In" tavern under Inspector Rivers, and others at different places along the disturbed part of Queen's-road, while a large number wore on patrol up and down the street,
In addition to the fire constables from No. 7 Station who were sent to the Civil Hospital, there were two of the Central Station men so much cat about with stones that thord to be despatched thither, and a district watchman was also very badly wounded. A lokang with Soaress" party disappeared in the fight, but he had prob- ably acted upon the dictatos of prudence, and got out of the affray with a whole skin. One of the mounted troopers was hurt in the face by being unhorsed in Queen's-road.
The Administrator (Hon W. H. Marsh) was speedily informed of what was taking place, and ho at once set about measures for meeting the emergency. A request was sent to the military authorities for help, and the call was promptly responded to. Two companies of the Buffs! were speedily got ready and with fixed bay- onets marched to the scene of the disturbance under the command of Major Harrison. The troops marched all through the disturbed parts, but found nothing to do in the shape of active work, though their presence doubtless did much to overawe the mob. The disturbance was at an and before they appeared, and the mobs were in great measure broken up, though the streets were all lined with Chinese, who were now quiet. The spot whare the riot was at its worst was the junction of Gap-street and Quan's- road West, and in the Chinese Recreatio- und and adjoining streets, and after the gh was done, it was strewn with the weapons of the Chinese-stones, bricks, lumps of granite, ke.. like a battlefield. It was somewhat satisfactory: to see one rather amusing incident of the fight in this locality. A Celestial shopkeeper was standing at the door of his shop in Queen's-road
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enjoying the sight of the pelting of the foreigh constable devils, and was laughing most hearty { at the showering of missiles upon them, when a flying brick, doubtless meant for a than his, struck him on the side of the head and' knocked him down backwards into his. He donbtless failed to see the fun of the thing after that. Another body of men from the Paf81 NOV 24 followed the first, and marched through the town under the command of Colonel Gravos. After this detachmeut came a body of police with whom were Mr. Wise, Police Magistrate, and Capt. Dempster. Mr. Wise had a copy of the Riot Aot with him, and was accompanied by Mr. Bedell Li Yun, Police Court interpreter, who bad some Chinese translations of the Act to post. up. The mob began to be troublesome again, but the trouble this time did not amount to a great deal, and was suppressed in a short time. It was! then not considered necessary to read the Act.
From this hour there were no more disturb- anoes during the day. A number of mon were arrested during the rioting, and the manner in which they were dealt with will be found further on. It was said they were going to be publicly whipped, and probably such a measure would have had a good effect upon the turbulent people, but this could hardly be done, though they were otherwise severely dealt with.
Among the casualties it was reported that one wounded Sikh trooper had distinguished him- golf by a remarkably smart piece of sword practice on a Chinaman, whose head he cut clean off at a stroke. No amount of inquiry, how- over, could trace this report to any reliable source, nor to any actual eye witness of the occurrence, and it must be regarded as the area- tion of some brilliant imagination. It would un- questionably be a fine piece of swordsmanship, considering that the swords of the troopers are not sharpened.
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The measures taken to intimidate the cargo boatmen were very effective, and again the usual business afloat was almost at # com- plete standstill. very few
cargo boats maining anywhere near this side of the har- bour. Two or three were to be seen along- side steamers, but the panic among them was general, and though they were evidently disposed to get to work again, and unwilling to lose any more days' earnings, they dared not go on with their work for fear of by attacked. All day long the streets in the worn distriot presented the appearance of a China New Year as far as work was concerned. Rise-pounders, coolies, artizans, and workmen of all descriptions seemed to have knocked off work very generally, and were to be seen lounging about idly. After the forenoon, however, they kept pretty quiet, but they could be heard talking about the place being set On fire at night. Their bear- ing was not that of quietly disposed men, but their appetite for riot and violence appeared as if only whetted by the occurrences of the morn. ing. The threats to burn the town went about very freely, and Chinese servants in many cases informed their masters that this was contem- plated.
In the afternoon a number of placards were posted about announcing that the town was to be fired in three places at night. Many of the police did not consider the mob had hoen permanently quieted with the quelling of the morning's riots, but believed the worst of the trouble was in store for the night. Tho pro ponsity of thisves to set fire to places for the sake of getting loot is well known, and such an opportunity as these troubles offered was con- sidered to be one they would not be likely to miss if they could possibly avail themselves of it. Fartbér rioting also was anticipated.
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