WoW IT CAME ABOUT, With respect to the overcrowding of the Tartar, which is expected to resume her homeward voyage to-day, arrangements have been made whereby the troops will be more. comfortable than hitherto, in addition to which the number on board has been reduced somewhat by some of the time-expired regulars leaving by the City of Peking the other day and others taking Derths in the Gaelic. "As soon as he heard of the overcrowding, Consul-General Wildman went on board the Tartar with the Consular Surgeon, Dr. Perry, and met the Chief Surgeon of the ship, the result of the visit being, as we have before stated, the making of arrangements calculated to add to the men's comfort.
Tt seems that, in the first instance, it was only intended to take home the Kansis Volunteers in the Tartar, but some 400 time-expired regulars induced the authori-Hon of Menile to give them tickets, with the result that all the arrangements were upset. When told that they would have to wait until there was another transport ab liberty the regulars one and all replied that they would rather go home on a plank than stay a day longer in Manila, and in this way persuaded the authorities to pack them off at once. At the same time we understand that every man was provided with a proper sleeping place, and certain little conveniences which the men_complained were missing were, through the energy of Consul-General Wildman, unearthed, they having been stowed away on board ship all the time the men were Press, 12th September. bemoaning their absence.—Hongkong Daily
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