A GHASTLY DISCOVERY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 December 1885, Page 2

A GHASTLY DISCOVERY.

A correspondent at San Francisco telegraphing to the' New York Herald,' says: —" The discovery on October 16 of the horrible practices of the Chinese in prepring tlie bonei'of their fellow-eountry-ftiefi for" 1 sljipihent . wftipli hisj bben 'cfirrieil "d'n un'def; jijie 'very nose' of the city authorities, 'has created deep and intense excitement. The knowledge that such a mass of putrefaction was lying exposed in the very heart of the city, while at'the same time the drainage and sewers of the city are known to be in a filthy condition, has created a feeling of fear for the health of the community, After all tli'o ljoxes containing the' remains of tho dead'Ohihaiijen l|ai| been reniqyed to |lio morgue, the corbner was mtefcviewM' M regard to the matter. He stated that when he arrived at the cellar in which the bodies were stored, and in wjiiph putrefied remains whiqh had still to be boiled were lying, 1 he set to work to break open the boxes. There were some sixty bodies In all. EaoU box contained a tin case, in • whioh, ; carefully wrapped in oilcloths, were a number of human bones. The smaller bones and long strips of skin were wrapped up in separate parcels, and placed within the larger ones. On the-outside of each box was a label bearing Chinese characters, pjfcty 'tlie nanje'-qf. jju;.. person within, :b6 thai; tlw relliaiid'g identified Tby' relatives ! of' China. After haying opened' several of the' boxes,' the. corner to spize the whoje lot and remoiVthem tqthe mqrgjie. fxpress waggons were called for the nappe, While the cases were being placed on the waggons some of them rolled off • and fell to the pavement, breaking open and exposing the contents, Tho crowd which had ugseinbledj upon learning the cause of the pxpitepiqntj fympgd pi} fte. feones f and in thejr Inijignaiiqfi trp|tj}ei)) unfjer foot, The pplice quipkly interppged, ang tho loading SQltiiiqeij witljoi]t' further B . : p§ moved to the morgue.... - boxes containing 'remains were, on examination, found to have come from cities in the interior of the States. The' re ; riiaiiis were sjiippgd from there to San Francisco in fcihmftn tea boxes, Those that come ; from the interior are'boi|e'dkn(J prepared before " shipment, so that no odour is perceptible 'on'the route. : Only those removed from San' Francisco cemeteries have flesh Btill on them when brought for preparation to the cellar.:lt was the intention to have shipped all t)iose bodies on the,steamer City of Pekin. It is jthat the Chinese companies will bring an action agajnal'fjie fl SsPs r for the removal of the boXef arid Vefii^ina^