For several days past one of the stof has been endeavouring to find a place called Exile Island, His anxiety arose from a report in the "Canton Gazette" to the effect that the "British Imperialists" in Hong-Kong had passed a law authorizing the deportation of all Chinese strikers to that spot. Then the Gazette" went on to say?
Exile Fland Gs loewted in the south-Mhate ternal mere, "Formerly Wie engatee criminals were seme there For We Tons exile. Whenever erin AMI ture sent there, the. British of them bor exiles Shether thes: hive oF i Tmperintists have. no News has. been received Qkinese Strtkers enright. in Henskonk sent to Hell trund by the next Tin "ammenshite came what they Aire peaarare Tustited. by" hele. own "the interference of the Ciihese"vovernment, What m- shan The penal settlement in the Andaman Islands seems to be indicated somehow by this report, hut the trouble is that Hongkong does not send people there, Even the picturesque touch about the box fof matches and the tin of biscuits fails. to bring Hongkong into that particular picture. In any case the NGazette" need not worry itself about the denizens of the settlement filuded to, for most of them may Consider themselves lucky there. Hid they not gone there they would have been hanged.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.