Macao, Jan, 1.
Dr. Adolfo Adroaldo Jorge has been elected a member of the Gover ment. Council og representative of the' people. His election caused reh rejoicing as he is very popula this city. Dr-dargo when he was the Director of "Eeo Macancse Weekly paper wrote against certain abuses dri the administration of this city and. the people are confident} that he will be able"to assist the local government to build up a better administration, The local press is devoting much apace to the Municipal Council election. According to law the member's elected by the people serve fon the Council for two years. The present Councillors "have already Served, mote than this period and one of the papers suggested a new lection, This met with sonic op-Position from another journal which Suggested that a Connnission should appointed by, the Governor instead of by an election by the people. Since the foundation of the Municipal Council. some $49. years fage the Macanese have enjoyed the Drevilege of electing a municipal Council" to look after the HE. B, the Governor, however ha appointed an Administrative Mission to look, after the the Municipal Council on which only four out of, the five members are servente of the Government, Some days ago a very, touching ceremony took place on Taipo an slond justin' front of this, city under the" Portuguese "Administra-Won. During a conversation be: tween some Portuguese, one of them suggested a pilgrimage to the place Where the Few of the. Portuguese Frigate D. Maria I are. buried, According to history, a sailor of this vessel was always punished by his' superiors and one day he thought of a terrible vengeance. As he had @ very good friend in. the nelson of an officer who had tried est to save him from all the punishments he had received, returning. one day' from land he_ told this friend that someone of his Yamily had. arrived from Portugal and was very anxious t0 see him. Immediately "the oticer left the frigate and when he was ab a safe distance, the sailor set fire to it and the whole. vessel was blown to. pieces. This happened in 1818. On January 10a group of Portuguese went to Taipo ina government Yaunch and laid a wreath on the monument erected in the memory of the slaughtered crew, Delong to he Nineteenth and Twenty-Gret centuries."
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