Extension and Great Northern Telegraph Companies, was attacked in broad daylight in Macao on the 9th instant while on his way from the Macao Hotel to the steamer jetty. He was riding in a narrow street ricsha when four Chinese leapt at him and struck him on the head with a paper-covered iron bar and he fell out of the ricsha. The topee Mr. Elwes was wearing saved him from serious injury and when he got up and prepared to defend himself the Chinese bolted with hi bag. The ricsha coolies were badly assaulted and, although the street was crowded no one offered any assistance.
The explanation of the affair seems to show that Mr. Elwes was the victim of a mistake, the gang really being, in wait for Mr. Pereira, the sub-agent of the Banco Nacionale Ultramarine, who is of a very si milar build. It had been the practice of the latter to travel to Hongkong with a bag of banknotes. The bag that they got away with contained only a few personal articles.
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