459
asi.
the 15th instant six different parties of Police made simultaneous search of all the suspected Cimb Storwer and Coolie houses in Victoria
one club house 2 revolvers and a large quantity of ammunition were found and men were arrested and in another two swords were discovered but the inmates had escaped by the roof on the approach of the Police. A revolver was found at a house at West Point. Ten men who could not give a satisfactory account of themselves were taken into custody during the day, arrested for disorderly conduct.
17. During the morning a large number of Fung koon coolies stopped work at 1 p.m. when a rumour was spread about that a coolie had been shot in the Starbour. This produced an immediate suspension of all work and the panic spread as far as Quarry Bay where coolies employed on the dam of Messrs Butterfield Swire stopped work for the same reason.
It was with the greatest difficulty that the coolies were convinced that the rumour was false and induced to resume work.