SINGAPORE.
[From the Launcetlon Examiner, Oct. 27.] By ihe barque Cacique, arrived at Adelaide from Singapore 9th August, and the schooner Lightning 11th August, we have files of Straits papers to the sth. The brig 'lyrone arrived at Singapore on the 12th July, having left Bruni on the 30th June, at which time the Sultan and his people weie busily engaged in hunting down the piiates driven on shore by the" Nemesis. They had killed twenty-nine in the jungle in the course of the pursuit, while eighteen who were taken alive and brought to Bruni were formally executed. From forty to fifty captives of the pirates from Lingin, Banca, &c, had been brought in and were to be forwarded to Singapore. A tonnage duty of one dollar per ton is now paid by vessels, instead of the duties on goods, &c. This is in pursuance of the provisions of the treaty signed by the Sultan, on the occasion of Mr. Brookes last visit. ,The H. C. war steamer Nemesis had gone to the new colony of Labuan.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 248, 15 December 1847, Page 3
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177SINGAPORE. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 248, 15 December 1847, Page 3
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