Your correspondent witnessed last Friday a barile between two factions of the employees of the peanut all shops. One side set forth from its headquarters armed with clubs and poles sharpened at one end, and attempted to take by surprise mem: bers of the other side in. the shops where they were working. They found that the latter had taken refuge on the roofs of their shops, fanq they were greeted by a shower of stones and pieces of roof-tiles. Rocks were thrown back and forth without either side making the feast progress until, all of a sudden, comrades of the besieged workingman, armed to the teeth, wore seen hurrying towards the" scene of battle From then on the battle ground was one of the main streets, the Tai Ping Maloo. First one side would advance and then the other, and it w: fally half an hour before either side] drew close enough to ite opponents to inflict any real damage. At last several members of one of the unions wote overtaken by the advancing mob and were felled by clubs and] beaten unmercifully as they lay on! the ground.
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