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on
Superintendent of Police certain riotous proceedings - that recently occurred in the
Colony.
It will be seen from this report that a quarrel, between two rival clans of coolies, trivial in its origin, threatened to develop into a disturbance of serious dimensions, that the Police were able to deal successfully with the difficulty, and that prior to the date of the report order had been completely restored.
3. A considerable number of serious assaults with lethal weapons were committed, one of them, I regret to say, with fatal result, by each of the hostile factions on the other, but there was no looting, or attempt at it, nor any general combined rising of the criminal or disorderly classes of the community.
4. Some forty convictions have been obtained in the Police
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