BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3547, 6 July 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

. .. Wellington, July 4. , According to the report of a Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the sickness on hoard the Mongol, it was clearly shown that several oases of scarlet fever and measles occurred while the emigrants were in the Imperial dep6t at Plymouth ; also that the depAt was overcrowded and ill-ventilated, that the medical officer of the depdt neglected his duty, and that the ship’s surgeon should not have gone to sea with such sickness. There was no regular inspection of emigrants prior to the embarkation, and that, when disease broke out in the married compartments forward, the sur-

geon neglected to adopt those precautionary measures which had succeeded in checking the disease at an earlier period of the voyage in other parts of the ship. A proper supply of provisions and medical comforts was not put on board, while the provisions for the young children wore useless during the greater portion of the voyage. The medical comforts were so carelessly used as to become exhausted before half of the voyage was over. The surgeon is blamed for not insisting that the immigrants should have a proper supply of water. The captain is severely blamed for allowing the supply to become exhausted ior several hours in mid-ocean with epidemic disease on board. The Commissioners say, The supply of children’s rations was calculated on a wrong basis, although probably ac cording to the scale required by the charter. No provision was made for the excessive number of children, they being in proportion to adults. They think that children’s rations should not be calculated as per statute adult, but according to the numbers and requirements of the children on board.

-v „ , . AycsLAND, July 4--Dissatisfaction is oaqsed through tjie nonreceipt qf a writ for the Waiteniata District, although gazetted vacant on the 12th of June. The year’s Customs revenue is L 190,464.

Grahamstown, July 4. The Borough Council have despatched a petition for presentation to the Assembly pray>ng f° r additional representation for the Thames, ihe petition is about a chain in length, and contains nearly 2,000 signatures.