The robbers who have for some time been preying on the city below have recent-climbed to the Peak in search of plunder. About 9 p.m. on the Ist instant a gang of seven or eight Chinese, armed with knives, entered the house of the signalman at Victoria Peak during his absence and laid hands on property valued at $12. This booty not contenting the scoundrels, they sited the house of the watchman, who vas also away at the time, and seized and tied up his wife, inflicting' several stabs on her in wanton brutality to compel her to
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