at Bangkok is another proof, if proof were needed, that in face of western apathy, astern cooperation wins all along the 1c. Here an equally unsuccessful attempt was made to provide a substitute for the Indian dhobic' who smashes the clothes, and the Chinese washerman who steals them. The advent of the laundry es on the part of and Europeans preferred to save the immediate penny, and lose, in clothes missing, and wear and tear, and enhanced prices, the pound later on, While the Plague has reappeared in the port, it presses ly. Kn: Lumpor, up the Penin was gazetted infected place on Wednesday, 22nd instant; and to-day the Acting-Governor in Council has prohibited coolie immigration into the Straits Settlements by any vessel leaving or calling at, Hongkong after the 29th. In matters of quarantine we are in a position somewhat similar to that of Hongkong. As long as regulations are not in force in our hinterland, the Johore Territory, we on the one side and Malacca on the other, are bound to suffer a roundabout immigration from infected It is a sign of the times that the al Commission have raised the post-mortem fee in cases of suspected logue from $5 to $10. At the same meeting it was reported that the number of rats killed this year up to date is 175,910, and that the crusade cent nes, The following occurrence shows how easily infection may be spread by these animals. Tu consequence of the appearance of plague in the coolie lines attached to a certain dock, the coolies were turned out and the houses fumigated. As a result there was a great exodus of rats from tha dwellings. The rats rushed a steamer lying in the dock, and established themselves in her holds. to be carried from port to port ov half the world. In this connection it is worth notice that a paper, written by a China missionary, has appeared in a critical monthly at home, stating the reasons for believing that the emrods', which afflict ed the Philistines while the Ark was among them, were true plague buboes; and that "the mice that mar the lund' were the plague-carrying rats. The theory is not a new one; but in the paper a first-hand acquaintance with local conditions during a plague epidemic and scholarship are combined in a series of proofs which fairly establish the contention.
That the Malay is at heart as much a pirate to-day as his fathers were in the days of Admiral Keppel is evident from the following story brought to Singapore on Saturday, along with the evidences of the crime __Inspeetor Branagan boarded a Chinese junk and learnt from-the only survivor of that the company can always repeat this the crew that the vessel left Singapore on the 22nd and came to anchor on thi noon of the 23rd in a calm off the island of Karimong, 35 miles distant from this port. They lay within easy reach of land and in full view of a Malay village. Some time afterwards four natives came off in a boat, and, after getting some tobacco, climbed up and sat in friendly fashion along with the crew. Suddenly the survivor, who was in the bows at the time, heard shouts, and was ed at. the same moment by arrying a kris. Wounded with a great gash indi side, he managed to make his way below, and' conceal himself among the cargo. There he remained until nightfall, when he issued to find that the attackers had Gisappeared, taking with them all that was valuable. The only sign that he could see of his five companions was the blood which covered the deck. In addition he was drifting quickly upon the rocks, as the Malays' had cut the cable, He managed to drop a small anchor, and this held unfit he was rescued by a coasting steamer, which towed the junk to Singapore, 28th
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