Singapore, 15th September, 11.5 a.m.
The China Mutual Steam Navigation 1 Co.'s steamer Chinywo (Captain Harris), which arrived here with 500 Chinese coolies on board, has been ordered to leave the waters of the Colony within twenty-four hours for having contravened the quarantine regulations of the port by touching at Hongkong on the voyage from Amoy.
She is now at sea, and it is expected here that she will return to Amoy with her human freight.
[Messes. Holliday, Wise & Ca., the agents for the Chinn Mutual S, N. Ca. at Hongkong, have also received a telegram substantially in the same terms as that of our Ningapore correspondent. The Chingwo arrived in Hongkong from Amoy on the 7th instant, sailing for Singapore and London on the 9th inst., after taking on board some cargo, but, we believe, no passengers. It was known that quarantine restrictions against Amoy had been withdrawn, and it was believed that no obstacles would he raised to stexners calling at Hongkong, especially if no passengers were shipped here. What Captain Harris will do in the circumstances is not known, It is a curious position for a shipmaster to be placed in, to have to put to sex with 500 Chinese coolies some 1,500 miles or more from the port of embark ation, Three courses are probably open to him, unless the Singapore authorities, ax a punishment, refuse to give him the third alternative. "He may either return to Hongkong or Amoy with his coolies or transfer them to a vessel bound to either of these or he may remain at sea till the expiration of the recognised period of plague incubation, and then return to Saw Beports,
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