A Chinaman reported to the Inspector on duty at the Central Police Station on the 5th inst. that a murder had been committed in a house in Des Veeux Road. Detectives found the house quite deserted and the dead body of a man iving on the floor with two nife wounds in the chest, and he had evidently been dead some time. The police are now making enquiries into the matter, Plague on Board the P. and O. S.
S. V-lotta.
The R. M. steamer Valetta is in quarantine here, having arrived from Bombay with plague amongst her crew, and the stewardess also I heir is down with it. All the patients have been taken to hospital.
New Steamer for. Indo-China
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