The following is from the " Hongkong Daily Press" of December 12 Our correspondent at Macao writes that sensational news has been received from the Colony of Timor. As at Macao, so in Timor, thera has been revolt of the troops Led by noncommissioned officers they laid siege to Goverament House and demanded the immediate departare of the Governor, The proceedings so frightened His Excellenoy's wife that she was prematarely confined and died soon afterwards. The broken-hearted Governor, with his three children, left as soon afterwards as UN
725 possible for one of the Dutch porte to procure passage to Lisbon, The revolutionaries proclaimed a chemist President of the island republic, and made appointments to the public offices,
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