A FLOATING CHARNEL HOUSE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 262, 9 October 1883, Page 2

A FLOATING CHARNEL HOUSE.

• ■*' » ' ■* L ... .ThejSydney lowii ai^i Country pas some remarks about the" Hoibow wljich, •left. JDiunedin a Jew: weeks^ag<o with a/ mixed cargo of provisions ana the bodies of Chinamen. It is probable that after all the trouble and expense ;tne : bodies will, instead- of being deposited in/th^sacreii soiL'oflChina, be committed to the deep. The following is Jthe r paragraph referred to :— On the vpyjage. Captain' Blwieyfouiid to' hiS great 'an-' uoy.ance that they had not beenj delivered on board m good order and condition ; and this is another instance .of howthe Mathea Chinee can come; the doable over his white brother.. Several *?ases -of^ Chinkee; wer,e refused te be -taken on board' ,oJn,accouAiJpt their i be-, ing too •* n fg^' » b^ul"^Jofinnpa I* -no.' Bavee'j soon; got over that difficulty, aDd they were sent on board later on m apparently good o^der. On arrival at the quarantine-station these boxes were^ placed on board .the Faraway t hult/ , but , now ; nothing ' would induce the sitippdr 'to receive them back again, on^ board, and, of ourse, they will have io, be dealt with by the authorities.; li is probable that the,, health- pfficer will condemn the whjpj^f ;df . bones' and they will be relegated to a grave ' m the blue waters otjthe Pacific in^taa.} of being transmitted, to.. C.biaesaj soil. Meanwhile thair freight to- China is £4 per boxj and the ship is answerable, for 'their safe delivery. \ f; . ; ,"','"' I ""."■