to City A Col. Cross, a British subject, was turned back by pickets as soon he entered the native city, and forced to return immediately "to Shameen. A nun, said to. be lady was accused by the strikers of taking a Chinese girl {into Shameen, aren parcel into the island as well, and they were about to conduct her to! the El the union head-when Mr, Hayley Bell, Commissioner of Customs, hearing! of this lady's predicament, interfered, and saw to it that she was taken to a police-station instead. As soon as the crowd dispersed, the police allowed the prisoner to go also.
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