By the Cantow on Tuesday we received some particulars of the piracy on board the Namoa, which was briefly referred to our telegram on Thursday last.
The Namoa was to have left Hongkong on Tuesday week but was postponed till daylight next day, She had on board among her passengers Chinese returning to their homes from Australia and America ome of whom had probably saved considerable sums of money. There was also on board a Mr. Petersen, a Customs lightkeeper who was returning to the Lamock Lighthouse. Atnoon the captain and officers nut on duty went to tiffin, but Mr. Petersen, who was unwell, was lying down in a long chair in the after part of the steamer when some Chinese went aft and shot him dead. The Captain came up from the saloon to see what was the cause of the firing when he also was shot dead. The Chinese then threw astinkpot down the saloon where apparently the Chief Engineer was. Another gang of pirates were forward and they seized the secund otlicer who was on the bridge, and fastened the chief officer in his room Jeaving two men with aris outside to prevent his getting out. Sume more of them proceeded tu the mess room and tired ut the second engineer who was having his tifin, two bullets lodging in his arm. Others of the pirates went to the engine room where the third engineer had been on watch, but when he heard the firing, he id himself and the pirates could not find him; the third mate also hid himself. The pirates got hold of the No. 1 fireman and holding revolvers over him made him look after the engines and attend to the tele-find taken charge of the bridge, Having raph, which was worked by the pirates who
thus got entire control, the pirates proceeded to loot the ship. They took the treasure out of the treasure room and got together all the passengers' valuables. At this tine, the steamer had been turned round, and under the direction of the pirates w: making for Mirs Bay, some thirty miles from Hongkong. 'The pirates drank all the liquors on board and when Mirs Bay reached, they let go the steamer's richer and whistled for junks to come ese junks having come alongside, the pirates smashed all' the steamer's bouts, so that they should not be followed, and left the vessel with their plunder' just as it was getting dark. The crew of the steamer then slipped the cable and made for Hongkong where they arrived on Thursday morning at daylight. The pirates were about forty-five in number, wore shirts of mail and were armed with revolvers and knives. Tu addition to the Captain and passenger, one of the quartermasters was killed. It is reported that the pirates collected altogether about $100,000, The Duily Press of the 1th inst. gives the following account:—News of the most serious kind has this morning come to light, nothing less than the murder of two Europeans and a Malay on the high seas, and the wounding of six others, two of whom were Europeans, The particulars so far as can be gathered as yet, are as follows The coast steamer Namou left Hongkong
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