A CHINESE PLOT TO SEIZE A MAIL STEAMER.
(by cable.) Cookxown, July 5. The Eastern Australian mail steamer 80-wen has arrived from Hong Kong and Singapore with the Torres Straits mails. She reports that on her upwards voyage to Hong Jlong a piratical plot among the Chinese passengers to seise the vessel was discovered by a conversation being overheard. The passengers were mustered, and all hands being armed, 25 Chinese were arrested,, and boxes containing loaded revolvers, packets of powder with fuses attached were discovered.. On the arrival of the vessel at Hong Kong the prisoners were handed oyer to the'authorities.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 5 July 1880, Page 2
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101A CHINESE PLOT TO SEIZE A MAIL STEAMER. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 5 July 1880, Page 2
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