This incident comes as a timely bint to the Steamer Companies to bestir themselves, and make such arrangements as will secure the safety of the passengers and property entrusted to their charge from the raids of lawless gentry like these. There is probably not a boat on the river which could not have been taken with equal ease by the same gang. Although the Yangtze steamers are coining money yet the Companies employ as few Euro-Peans on board their vessels as they possibly con. The number of bad characters who make their living by plundering the baggage of native passengers is increasing rapidly, and nothing is done to prevent events, it is to be hoped that some enquiry will be made into this case, and some effort made to bring the pirates to justice.
30th May.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.