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We have received Singapore papers to the
23rd August.
At the convict gaol or lines in Penang, in
the beginning of June, a convict was to have
been flogged in presence of all the convicts.
When assembled they were ordered to sit on
the ground, by Mr. Macnamara, the European
overseer, who struck one of the prisoners
who refused to sit down. The prisoner immediately
stabbed the overseer with a long
knife, and he also received several stabs from
another convict. Macnamara died instantly.
One of the murderers then rushed towards
the house of a Parsee convict who has been
allowed to live out of the Lines, and the
favour shown to whom had excited the
jealousy of the other convicts. As he ran
out he stabbed one of the convict pens in
the gateway, but was knocked down and
secured. The other man was also secured, as
well as a third who assisted the murderers by
keeping back the few convict peons who
were about to advance to protect the overseer.
The majority of the peons who were standing
about instead of aiding him, ran away. The
prisoners declared that they were driven to
the deed by Macnamara's cruelty, and that
they had resolved to kill him when the convicts
were assembled to see the man flogged.
Singapore Free Press, July 5.
MALACCA -We have been favored with
the perusal of a letter from Malacca, from
which it appears that intelligence reached
that place on the morning of the 1st current,
of an attack having been made on the 3rd
ultimo by the Dates K'lana of Sungei
Ujong, with a strong body of Malays from
Lings and Rumbow, upon the house and
stockade of Lobby Coloop at Sunning, on
the banks of the river, where this notorious
robber had established himself, and has for
many years past levied an impost, or kind of
black mail upon all the produce and goods
passing up or down. The attack appears to
have been quite successful,, the robber's
house and defences having been taken and
destroyed, and a very considerable quantity
of arms and ammunition having fallen into
the hands of the victors. Lobby Coloop
himself managed to escape into the jungle.
Singapore Free Press, Aug. 9.
BOA CONSTRICTOR -On the evening of
Friday last a large snake was brought into
town by some convicts, who had captured it
on the Bukit Timah Road. It was alive
when brought in, but died during the course
of the night, and was carried through the
streets on the following day for exhibition,
and sale if a purchaser might be found. The
reptile, which was a very large one of the
Boa Constructor kind, measured upwards of
twenty feet in length, and was about the
thickness of a man's leg, except at one part,
where it was ruled out by the body of some
animal which it had recently gorged. pro-
bably a pig or dog, to judge by the apparent
size of it. The state of sluggishness induced
by this hearty meal made him a comparatively
easy prey otherwise a snake of this
size would be rather an " ugly customer."
Singapore Free Press, Aug. 2.
BORNEO.
The Straits Times gives the following intelligence,
translated from the Java Bode of
28th July :
For some time rumours were circulating
that a new sworn confederacy had been
formed in the western division of Borneo,
under the name Samtjam feet. These rumours
were principally confirmed by the
perpetration of several murders lately, and
notwithstanding the most rigorous search
for the criminals was made, it was generally
in vain. However on the night of the 29th
June the Assistant Resident of Montrado,
aided by Lieutenant Ross, with a small detachment
of infantry, succeeded in surprising
the meeting place of the above mentioned
fraternity, in the hills of Tandjong.
Two of the band were despatched and two
severely wounded, while twenty-seven of
the principal ringleaders were taken prisoners.
As it was impossible to tipi-roaeh
the meeting place, situated in such an impenetrable
wilderness, without being discovered,
a few escaped, but their names are
known. They captured two books, in one
of which the names of the founders of the
fraternity and of their missionaries are inscribed,
while in the other was written the
names of such persons as had given money
or other necessaries for the company.
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