CHINA.
The ship Silas Q-reenman, fifty daya from Hong Kong, arrived at San IVancisco on July 25th. " Hon W. M. Rennie is appointed Acting Colonial Secretary for Hong Kong. The coolie ship Yeddo was destroyed by fire, off the Java coast, on the 16th of April. A mutiny had previously occurred, and ten-men had been flogged and put in. irons. The chief mate, one apprentice, and 140 emigrants were lost. The British ship Dunmarch, from London to Hong Kong, stranded on the Xasper Shoals, on the 25th of May. It j
ig unknown whether the craw wwwuved or not. :.--:•■ . -. . The expedition against the pirates on the west coast had been very successful. On arriving at Linton— the rendezvous of the pirates, the people 'having fled — the Chinese soldiers went ashore, | and burnt the deserted houses. The expedition then penetrated to Nameui, when Lieutenant Mainwaring landed with a small force, and approached the village cautiously. Suddenly a masked ha tery of 12 guns opened on him, but after a I sharp engagement he silenced it and took it. This is about the first time the pirates have been successfully met in their own haunts.
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Southland Times, Issue 577, 12 October 1866, Page 3
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193CHINA. Southland Times, Issue 577, 12 October 1866, Page 3
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