the cases this morning were rather of a me and uninteresting character.
went into a cash shop to get a supply of that useful medium of exchange, for Silver, and while counting over a. stun secreted ten cents worth. He then declared that the string was short that amount. One of the shopmen, however, insisted that it was complete when it was put into the prisoner' hands, seized him, and on searching foun he had secreted the cash in his capacious sleeve. The Magistrate remarked ti the amount was trivial, but the ingenuity of the culprit, deserved. to. be rewatled, sod so he ordered him 100 blows, and seven days Some "incorrigibles" were brought up, charged with playing off an old game on unsuspecting countryman, and as they had hoor frequently before the Court, were sent into the City.
The countryman turned in at a teashop to get refreshment, and while he was there the sharpers affected to miss some keys and to believe that he had picked them up. Protesting his innocence he permitted item to earch him, and was of courte set free van apology for the mis! ko. He went on his way, rejoicing that 1 probity had been proved, but feeling in his pockets foun the key to the accusation in the absence of $5, of which the adroit searcher had taken the opportunity to lighten him.
Four men were charged with assaulting two hoys in the service of a foreigner in Nanking Road. The boys it ay had been throwing out slops, to the annoyance of their sensitive neighbours of Laoukeechong, who followed up a remonstrance, probably not very humbly received, with a good shaking. The magistrate said the boys were in the wrong, Dut the defendants should have complained to their master or to the police, and as they had taken the law into their own hands, he sentenced them to one day's confinement.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.