It is rather curious that news after this should come through Captain Scurr's wife. She met gentleman out here and, in the course of conversation, it developed that he was on a steamer which sighted the ghost ship and towed her into San Francisco. So she arrived, but sha was not to be for exhibition, neither had she finished her war against mankind. night, without any warning, she quietly sank at her moorings and drowned two watchmen, who fortunately were the only people on board. An attempt was made to raise her, but failed ind she is at the bottom still.
Even association with tha boat seems to bring ill luck, for several of Captain Scurr's men have met violent deaths. It will perhaps be remembered by some that, a few years ago, a man who was being held in the American gaol at the time when that institution was a public joke, on account of the freedom extended to the prisoners, made a break for liberty and the assistant gaoler, in trying to cripple him, shot him dead. That was Captain Scurr's utility man, the one member he could depend upon to get somewhere near to the proper interpretation of an order.
was a sad end for so picturesque and not really so very character.
The Indian Army man got back into khaki during the war, but one night he wandered off into No Man's Land and no one can tell what was his fate. Captain Scurr alone seems proof against every-tung..tHe, too, joined up and came through the war without @ scratch and has come back here to very nearly as much excitement, shrip fires and the salvaging of wrecked Japanese vessels, punctuated by the gentle titule episodes up the Yangtze, saving hin from becoming a victim to monotony; Cuinese papers state that Japanese interests are working hard to purchase a landing stage in Shang-bai for the air service which is shortly to be inaugurated by the Japanese Government. The first machine in this service is due to arrive here about the middle of November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.