CHINA.
[From the Adelaide Observer, Jan. 4.] The Hongkong (Overland) Register of the 28ih September, gives a deplorable account of the piratical seizure of the French ship Aloert by 180 Chinese coolies, emigrants from Cumsingmoon to Callao. The French captain (Pain) went among the emigrants with a small cane in his hand, in order to enforce compliance with certain sanitary rules, when they rose en masse and killed the captain, the first and third mates, Mr. John Elias, a passenger, and the cook. The life of another passenger (Mr. Jesus Elias) was spared. The second mate and the seamen escaped into the rigging, and a squall coming on, the Chinese spared their lives on condition of their navigating the ship back to China. On arriving off Hongkong the Chinese decamped in several native boats which they hailed, with all the booty they could carry.
The health of the British troops at Hongkong had improved considerably. A simultaneous outbreak of Chinese “Red Republicans,” in three provinces, had been summarily put down by the authorities.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 582, 1 March 1851, Page 3
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173CHINA. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 582, 1 March 1851, Page 3
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