A batch of ten natives wore brought up on remand from Friday last, charged with creating a disturbance at a lodging-house in the Shantung Road and wilfully damaging the furniture, From ti nce adduced it appeared that the disturbance was the outcome of the keen competition between I obtain. ps ra arriving Thucsday last a steamer arrived from Hankow
fodging-house in the Shantung Road expected frith a passenger whom the proprietor of the to stay at his house, and his employes took passension of hia Tuggago. "While they were thus engaged, the keeper of another Jodging-house in the French Conce hold of ut on arriving at that it had gone to the lodging house in the ggage was not there and was told
Shantung Road, but it would be fetched. He isfiod with this explanation, and the Kkcoper of the lodging-baure in the French accompanied by over a dozen others, among whom were the prisoners, thereupon went to the lodging hous In the Shantung Road and demanded the Tggage to be given up to them. wi the police was called, and the prigouers were apprehended. The proprietor of the lodging. house in the Shantung road presented a peti tion to the Court in which he set forth that ho bad been in business nearly a year, and that in consequence of his success Li Foo-the owner of the lodging-house on the French Bund, was jealous, and that he, with more than " twenty of with heavy tools, entered house on the 13th inst.
coming, hid himself, and fortunately got rid of to kill PB, When be saw then their attack, bu¢ all of his inmates were wounded and nearly all the household furniture broken. Under such o dreadful insult, petitioner hunhly begged that the Honorable Court would pay attention to the case, and the petitioner, as in duty bound, would ever pray.
After a long investigation, the Court was of the opinion that two of the prisoners were alone responsible for the row, and one of these was seat to goal for one month, the other being ordered to pay a fine of $40, $10 of which is to be given to the keeper of the Jodginghouse in the Shantung Road.
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