A native thief, who had been previously convicted, was charged with highway robbery on a foreiguer.—It appeared that on the evening of the second day of the races, the prosecutor was proceeding homewards in a jintickal, and when weet the Ningpo jou. louse, the prisoner and another mau, not apprehended, atopyed the evolve, and forcibly robbed the foreigner of $49, a pocket knife, un ko. with which they got safely Information was, however, given to the police, and search resulted in the discovery that the prisoner waa one of the two robbers.—He was sentenced to receive 100 blows with the bamboo, and to be im-Prisoned twelve months, with hurd labour,
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