is said to be over, and it is certain that the military officers sent from Canton together with 500 troops have returned to that city. Order has not, however, been fully restored and it certainly does not prevail.in the interior of Kuangtung, where piracies and robberies ona large scale are of constant occurrence. Only on the night of the 6th inst: a gang of about hundred. brigands took: possession of Waping, a large village in the Namhoi district, tied up all the watchmen, and looted some forty houses, getting, as usual, clear off with their plunder. On the 13th a pawnshop st Shinhing on the West River was attacked by an armed band, but fortunately was able to make such a vigorous defence that the robbers had to retreat.
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