Presumed Piracy of Cable Boat:
Over $3,500 Loss Considerable mystery _surrounds Jan occurrence which can. only be regarded as a piracy of a junk used [by the Eastern Extension Telegraph [Ca., at a point between Lan. Taa Toland and Macao, in Chinese waters, fas the result of which considerable [telegraph material and a complete} Jerew, with the junk, have vanished, At the time of writing, (October 30) no trace of the vessel or crew had been found.
Tt appears that a launch and a junk set out to investigate a defect in a cable somewhere between Lat While this the junk, with spare cable and various implements waited half a mile or more ff. However, when the services of the junk were later required, the launch was unable to find the craft, which had completely vanished, hoard there was cable worth mme-thing like $3,500, and various other goods, the value of which are not Known at present.
The Hongkong police have been! notified of the incident. and a seureh for the junk is being made.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.