A correspondent writing tous from Pekan, under date 15th July, announces the death of Captain H. C. Syers, the Commissioner of Police of the Federated Malay States. Captain Syers had gone on an ex-expedition to shoot lading in Ulu Pahang, ata place called Gahwai, There a sladang gored him in the stomach. His body reached Pekan on the 13th instend, and was to be buried in the evening of that day. Mr. R. W. Duff, Superintendent of the Pahang Police was then preparing for the funeral.
We learn from atiother source that Captain Syers and Mr. Meikle were shoot-aid had killed ehiree, when they tracked wud ing slading, had found a herd of eleven,
wounded a solitary bull. The bull charged and struck Captain Syers, not with the horns, but with the forehead, tossing him so high that he touched the bough of atta tree, afterwards found to be thirty-five fect high. Chen, the bull stopped short, and, as Captain Syers eamedownwards impaled him on the point of the horns the blow being delivered on the side, Mean while, Mr. Moiklo had put two No. 10 bullets in the sladang, but that did not stop it, although it was afterwards tracked and killed. Captain Syers did not die until n hours afterwards—in the boat going down stream—and he was conscious till within a fair minutes of his death. He did not suffer much pain, sensation having probably been deadened by the impact of the first blow. Me. Meikle brought the body to Pokan (the corpse being in the boat for forty-eight hours), where the remains were interred with military honours, Mrs. Syers is in Kuala Lumpur.
Captain Syers had been in the Selangor Government service for over twenty years, in the police department. In July, 1896, he was appointed to be chief in command of the police force of the Federated Malay States. The appointment was extremely popular. Probably no European had ever won the confidence of Selangor Malays to the same extent; and his acquaintance with the Malay character had enabled him to create a fairly efficient force out of doubt-fol raw material, aswell. as to maintain law and order amongst the native popalation, With the Chinese the influence of Captain Syers was scarcely less marked, though, necessarily,, his relations with the Celestia! multitude' were of a. stiffer character than with the courteous and Inw-abiding Malay. Captain Syers took a keen interest in sporting matters, and was ever to the front in the interests of the turf. His untimely death in Ulu Pahang will arouse widespread regret. The Federated States Service lose in him an experienced ollicer at a moment when he could ill be spared.—Straits Times.
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