LYTTELTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 908, 28 April 1871, Page 2

LYTTELTON.

ABRTVED. April 28 — Emerald, schooner, 40 tons, "SYhitby, from Picton. April 28 — Elizabeth Ann, schooner, 17 tons. Smith, from Okain Bay. CLEARED. April 28— Queen, schooner, 46 tons, Veale, for Auckland. April 28 — Elizabeth Ann, ketch, 17 tons, Smith,, for Okain Bay, in ballast. IMPORTB. In the Emerald, C. W. Turner, agent: 33.H00 ft sawn timber, Montgomery and Co. In the Elizabeth Ann, Master, agent: 94 telegraph poles, Order. EXPORTS. In the Queen, A. Cuff, agent: 320 sacks ■wheat, 337 sacks oats, Greig. A terrible narrative comes to us in the JBurmah papers. The ship Nouvelle Penelope lately left Macao with a large cargo of coolies, toon after leaving poit the coolies mutinied, aiurdered the captain, officers, and crew, ran the vessel ashore, made their way back to Macao, and theie re-engaged on board other vessels.' One of these was the Hankow, which soon sailed with 550 coolies on board. When five days out, these attempted to mutiny and murder the officers, but after a fierce fight they were driven back to the forecastle, where they deliberately set fire to the ship. The captain and officers aanriged to get out the boats and left the burning vessel. Meanwhile, the British ship Jouupore came in sight and took off about 100 coolies, but to have snved more would Lave imperilled their own safety, so some 400 were left behind to their terrible fate. A number of the mutineers of the Nouvelle Penelope have been captured, and 15 of them v.-^re beheaded in one day near Macao. A .special reporter of the China Mail describes the execution in all its horrible details. The executioner, we read, "is a self possessed, active, managing fellow, who goes about his work in a most energetic and direct manner. As we have said, he rolls up his sleeves with a determined sort of air ; he Is none of your namby-pamby men, but a veteran executiouer, who has rolled away his 5000 heads and attained to a distinguished rank, — is possibly at the head of his profession." Having described the preparations, the account proceeds : — " The bloody work begins. An assistant lays hold of the arms of the front rank, and the Jaunty Man |_the executioner] points his sword over the neck to take aim. A dull ' thud,' a heavy fall, a swashing sound, and a head rolls under the body, which has fallen forward. You no sooner recover from this horrible thrill, and the crimson spouting from the headless trunk is still transfixing your gaze, when the Jaunty Man (now in his element) is seen wading through amongst the bodies as in a cabbage bed, making ready foF the second victim. You turn away in disgust, and your ear is then pained with the second dull sound, half hollow and half solid. This head rolls some distance from the body, having been severed by a clean cut ; and the helpless trunk follows it, trying to catch it with the stream of its own life's blood." There is a great deal more of this, but the rest may be well omitted. The writer is even fonder of blood than Mr Swinbourne. — Argus.