THE CANTON RIOT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3323, 26 November 1883, Page 2

THE CANTON RIOT.

The Englishman Logan, who was sentenced at Canton to seven years’ penal servitude for shooting one Chinese dead and wounding another, is an officer of the outdoor staff of the Chinese Customs. He resided with some of his colleagues in a district of Canton called Honan, where also are various establishments for “firing” and otherwise preparing tea for the European market. Logan and some of his companions returned to their residence early one morning, when some coolies were lounging on their doorstep waiting for employment, and roughly ordered the Chinese to get out of the way, and then began to belabor them with sticks and whips. Tho well-known cry of “Save life," “Save life," arose among the Chinese; other coolies, who were also waiting for work, joined in the fray, which soon turned against tho original aggressors. Logan now appears to have rushed into the house and brought out a loaded rifle. At the sight of this weapon the crowd dispersed in all directions ; but the unfortunate man seems by this time to have lost all control of himself. He fired and killed a boy about twelve years of age, the bullet passing through his body, and wounding dangerously a man who was standing by. It was out of this that the riot at Canton, already described, arose.