A Chinese Pirate

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 11, 29 January 1884, Page 3

A Chinese Pirate

o The Chinese authorities iv the province of Chekiang are congratulating themselves at having put an end tq the depredations of a successful pirate and bandit who had made the neighbourhood ol Ningpo the scene ot his exploits during the last four years. His name is Hwang Chiu Man, and he had his home in some mountain fastnesses between Taichow and Yencbow, whence he sallied forth on his plundering expeditions. One peculiarity oi his operations, which seemed to show that he may have cherished some political ambition ot his own, was that he never interfered with the poor. He reserved all his attentions for tbe wealthy, and particularly for the officers of the Government. His good fortune was not le.«s conspicuous than his activity, and all the expeditions despatched against him failed to effect tne object with wh< h they were entrusted. It was said, and probably with truth, that he owed his safety ro his popularity with the working classes, for it always happened that either the plane of the Imperial commanders were divulged to him or that their force-* were led into an ambuscade hy one of his numerous spies But now his career vi adventure hat- closed, not, as might he supposed, by hi-* capture and pondigi; j.uuishuieut, but. by his being taken into the Kmperor's service. A small official post has been conferred upon him. while his followers have been enrolled in the Ningpo garrison. Thus has a formidable enemy to civil peace in China been removed at tbe same tithe that the Go verment obtains the personal support of a man who had so long bidden it defiance.