'A gang of thirty loafers, some armed with old guns and swords, surrounded two attached houses situated in the country beyond Connaught Road, on Tuesday night a little before twelve o'clock, and broke in the doors. On entering the houses the robbers fired three shots over the heads of the inmates, whereupon the latter remain ed insctiverwhile the houses were being looted. Three families resided on the premises, but they were poor people and their amassed portable wealth did not exceed in value $50. Having satisfied their lust for plunder the dispersed in small parties. The victims then sent " messenger to the Bubbling Well Police Station and several parties were at once told off to patrol the outlying roods with o result that stable Mackenzie arrested one man in Ferry Road and native police tne others in Sinza, all still carrying their shares of the robbery. So far no other arrests have been made. Not one of the inmates of the two houses was injured.
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