CHINESE PIRATES AND SMALL. POX.
Auckland, May 4.
The following Is the latest phase in Chinese immigration ;—The steamer Lydia Captain Ponlson, put into Honolulu with 700 Chinese on board. They mutinied and threatened to murder the European crew, and the Captain applied to the authorities for assistance, The police endeavored to board the ■vessel, but after exhausting their animation retired, and the Chinamen then attacked the crew in the but as sixteen of them had served their time in the German army they fought for their lives, and drove them back down the bold, and closed the hatches on them till the police and soldiers arrived. The Honolulu Gazette says that eighty of the late (Chinese) importations are reported to be pirates by profession. They will have a clear field in that line of business, which has been left nnworked up to the present by our own people. Twenty-two cases of smallpox have been taken from the Lydia to the hospital in Honolulu.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6272, 19 May 1881, Page 3
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