INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 159, 5 July 1880, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

CHINESE PIRATES. NARROW ESCAPE OF A MAIL STEAMER. Cooktown, Monday. The Eastern Australian mail steamer Bowen has arrived from Hong Kong and Singapore with the Torres Straits mails. She reports that on the upward voyage to Hong Kong a piratical plot among the Chinese passengers to seize the vessel was discovered by a conversation being overheard. The passengers were mustered, and, all hands being armed, twenty-five Chinese were arrested. Boxes containing loaded revolvers and packets of powder, with fuses attached were discovered. On the arrival of the vessel at Hong Kong, the prisoners were handed over to the authorities. The Bowen also brings news of the arrival of the New Ireland colonising steamship Genie at Singapore .on the 7th June. She had three feet of water in her hold, and her engineers had deserted her. ' / Adelaide, Saturday. . . The South Australian revenue .returns published to-day show that the revenue-for last quarter amounted to £547,000, being an increase of £] 46,000 ' compared with last year. The revenue for the year ending 30th June amounted to £1,826,000. ° * Mblbouhne, Saturday. It is now doubted whether the platelayer,whose body was found at Glenrowan, was. murdered by Ned Kelly as at first supposed. Sydney, Saturday. The New South "Wales revenue "returns for last quarter published to-day show the j revenue to -have been ;£1;1 76,000, being' an increase of .£ 1 100 compared with last year. The balance to the credit of the consolidated revenue on 30th June was £2,048,000.