The prisoner denied the charge.
Prosecutor said prisoner, who belonged to a three-masted vessel in the river, called on him to take him ashore in his sampan; but when asked to pay refused, and strack him on the leg with a couple of pieces of brick, Prosecutor appealed to tie police who took the man in charge. On being searched, pri soner was found to be armed with a slangshot and a sheath knife. In his defence prisoner Said hie hod been ashore the previous day to get Pakd, and coming off had been set upon 3 number of Chinamen, who, he believed, intended to rob him, in consequence of which he had taken these' weapons to use in self-defence. Fined $2 and costs.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.