From Our Own Correspondent, Ningpo, Sept. 24.
In my last letter I mentioned the commotion to the west of the city, which might have gone on, not only to danger of property, but of life. The sending of troops put an end to the strife. Many of the villages will long remember their foolish infatuation, and the mounds in the neighbourhood will be a memorial of acting on wild rumour.
We are now in the throes of another panic, panic on the waters. Last Saturday, "No. 112" steamer, which goes into Nimrod Sound and as far into the Taichow district as water will allow, left Medusa Creek on her way hither when she was boarded by about thirty passengers, with weapons concealed in their bedding. As soon as they were on board they declared their purpose by taking possession of the ship, looted her thoroughly, and left her in a sorry plight. Consternation is over the district, the steamers refusing to go in that direction again. A small gunboat which lies at anchor at Medusa Creek, eminently suited for suppression of piracy, was not far from the pirated steamer, but being at anchor was not ay:
Another expedition to this piratic coast will put an end to these spasms of outrage for a time.
It seems as if the native captain preferred anchor to questing for Pirates.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.