A very serious nssanlt was committed ese constable at one of the Wayside wharves early on Sanday morning. It appears th am, eleven or tw from the cruiser jeame down to the wharf with the i tention of going on board their They bad a diepate with their ricsha, coolies which led to the interventi mn of Chinese P.C. 709 who was on daty in the neighbourhood, The sailors at once turned upon and sssaalted him, and eral /the constable blew his whistle, in response to which Chinese P.O. 134 came to b tance. The sailore now became infuriated, and one or more of them stabbed P.O. 709 in nine or ten places. The constable blackily held on to his principal assailant until a foreign constable appeared on the scene, Two of the sailors were then and on Sanday morning they were brought up before the Austro-Hungarian Vice Consal Mr. H. Schumpeter, who order-for banishment. The Chinese Constable them to be sent on board their ship 608 is now lying in St. Lake's Hospital in precarious ce ndition, as the result of his plucky action, but it is hoped'that be will eventually recover.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.