Two coolies were charged with stealing twenty-Jive pounds of raw silk valued at $266 from 4 godown at 20, Swochow Road, between the 12th of August and the Sth instant. The owner of the godown stated that the prisoners were employed in the godown as coolies, Evidence was introduced to show that the silk had been sold to two silk thread shopkeepers for about one-half of its real value. One man way sentenerd 10 receive two hundred blows and the other to receive three hundred and six months' imprisonment. 'The shopkeepers were charged with receiving zvods which they knew to have been stolen, and one was sentenced tu two weeks? and the other to three weeks' imprisonment. Both were ordereil to make goud the value of the amount of silk received by each. About three and one-half pounds of the stolen property were recovered.
Stole a Connecting Rod. native was charged by an Indian watchman employed by Messrs. Farnham, Boyd & Ca. with stealing a steel connecting d, valued at twenty-live della. He Uthat he was on duty at the International Dock last evening at 7 o'clock and found the prisoner inside the yates. Knowing that he was a stranger the w ness searched him and found the rod under his coat, The prisoner was senenced to receive three hundred blows and the cangue for one month.
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