THE QUARANTINE SHIPS IN PORT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 254, 12 December 1872, Page 5

THE QUARANTINE SHIPS IN PORT.

On the 7th instant, Captain Thomson, the Health Officer, accompanied by Mr Colin Allan and Mr Mansford. proceeded in the steamer Peninsula, with a lighter in* tow. to the ship Christian M'Ausland, to superintend the removal of a portion of the passengers to the Quarantine Island. It had been arranged that the child on board the Palmerston, who had recently neen attacked with scarlatina, should be removed at the same time, but when this fact became known to the passengers on board the Christian M'Ausland, they positively refused to allow their luggage to be put into the lighter, and said they would not leave the ship till they were satisfied that the Germans were not to be associated with them. It became necessary, therefore, to send the Germans on board the Palmerston. Of course, the matter will be brought before the Board of Health at its meeting to-day. What appeared likely, however, to prove (v mutiny -rram quieted down, and the work of transhipment was allowed to go on. The higgle having been stowed in the lighter, the convalescent patients, all the single women, and some of the married families, in all about one hundred souls, were taken in tow by the Peninsula to the Island. The lighter was left alongside the Quarantine Jetty, when the steamer returned to the ship with the Government launch to fetch the Surgeon-Superinten-dent and two or three stray husbands and wives, who had been left on hoard the ship, their other halves having gonetothe Island in the lighter. Yesterday morning, soon after daylight, the Beinau Enjjlekens, better known in the Port as the Galliot, which has been temporarily fitted up with about one hundred bunks for the single men. was towed over to the Quarantine Station by the p.s. Peninsula, and moored off the smaller island by Pilot Lowtlen. it being the intention of the Board of Health, that these single men — most of whom were sent by Messrs Brogden and Sons —should sleep on board, and have the ran of the island during the day. Captain Thomson, who has been most indefatigable in his exertions, then proceeded to the Christian M'Ausland, and' the work of removing the remainder of the passengers was carried on during the day. With the buildings on the main island in their present incomplete state, it cannot be expected that the unfortunate immigrants will be as comfortably housed as they might have been, had the Government paid a little more attention to the frequent .recommendations and remonstrances of the Board of Health, but it fs hoped that by providing a liberal supply of fresh meat, bread, vegetables, and milk, the passengers will be brought to that happy state of mind which will enable them to put up .with many inconveniences which will of necessity arise during their detention in quarantine. We regret to have to record a ne.wca.se of gastric fever onboard theTalmerstpn on Saturday.