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ECHOES
OF 1858
THE FIGHT FOR ORDERED GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG
16.-Incendiarism—0
-Government Offers Fellow Press Reports
COAL
STRANGE ISLAND
KAIPING
FOR ALL PURPOSES
OFF CHILE
Steadily Rising From Sea
RELICS OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
May 17, 1858. On the evening of Saturday last in Taipingshan, warned by the di- seven, the licensed House Keepers about six o'clock, an alarm of fire abolical act of "incendiarism report was given. It was found to proceeded in our issue of yesterday, devis tale of fiction could have been Concepcion, Chile-No stranger. from a house in Lower Lascared arrangements to search the ap Road, the ground floor of which partments of their houses, in any thors than that of real life re- written by the best of modern au is used as a carpenter's shop and instance in which the equivoclated by Professor Carlos Oliver the upper allotted as lodgings to character or conduct of lodgers Schneider, curator of Conception the lower classes. It seems that should excite suspicion. Certain Museum, who has just returned three or four of the inmates were parties having entered two of those from the sitting outside one of the small house, directions were promptly Mecha off the Chilean Coast.
mysterious island of compartments into which the pre-given to adventure a search under mises are divided, when a loud ex-the beds.
An island that is steadily rising. plosion occurred within the com-order the visitors bastily decamp natives to be haunted and contain- On overbearing this out of the ocean, believed by the partment, the window of which ed. After their departure three ing an active submarine volcano; opens into Lascar Road. These bags of gunpowder weighing in all moving sand dues, relics of a lost people were burnt to some extent. ten pounds were found in ach South Sea race far from its original It so happened that in the imme- house. diate vicinity was the boat house,
habitat and a culverin believed to at which the Police were being
have been abandoned by Sir Fran- eis Drake in 1878 are all features mustered for evening duty. On
of the professor's strange advan- hastening to the spot they succord
ture. ed in extinguishing the fire and but little damage was done.
sion of this fire, the alarm was Immediately upon the suppres given that a house in Central Tai- ping Street not distant more than fifty yards from the site of the first conflagration was also on fire. The circumstances of this latter in- cident was singularly alike those attending the fonner, viz, the oe currence of an explosion--in a licensed house.
IN
Meche lies about 20 miles off the coast of Araucania, Chile. The
Some suspected parties, learn have been arrested. We con- fidently leave the detection of the gang and the frustration of, any further fiendish design they may concoct, to the untiring vigilance, Police. and unerring sagacity of the 20,000 remnants of the once nume- It would fortunately alive along the coast near Arauca
rous Mapucho Indian tribes still some mysterious and compassionate island, however, believing that pear that even in Hong Kong,
nia. They fear to approach the interposition of Providence docs when they die their spirits go to permit one section of Governmental oficials at least to be positively energetic and decidedly useful
Oh, sic omnes.”
May 19, 1568.
as a sort of Indian Valhalla. spend the summer on the island. Professor Schneider decided to
investigating its archeological a tures. First he excavated
12-
In the house first fired, a small thorities on the alert regarding Mecha type was distinct from the We are pleased to see our audian cemeteries and found that the canica! tin case, such as is used the dangers which threaten us. The Mapuches on the mainland, being for oil of samahoo, was found in following notification has been ex- the compartment and
of the South Sea Kanaka type, or this had tensively placarded. evidently contained explosive ma-
Melano-Polynesian. The French terials. The parties injured, three
No. 45-Government Notifica-ethnologist Rivet once evolved a in. number, surmise that this missile tion-It having come to the know theory that such a race had peo was flung in through the open ledge of His Excellency the Goy-pled parts of South America. window from Lascar Road, and the ernor that several cases of at-
Sir Francis Drake. Occupants of the second house from tempts at incendiarism have oc- which the alarm proceeded, enter. Curred within the last few days. Spanish discovery of South Amert. During the first years of the tain the same opinion. It seems this is to give notice that & re ca, Mecha was the beadquarters however, that the Police nuthorities | ward of 8100 will be given to any for Sir Francis Drake, Cavendish are differently minded and con-
person causing the apprehension and other British pirates who made jecture that the misalles were da and conviction of an incendiary, alliances with inhabitants of the posited under the bed boards un- and as it has also come der which the explosion occurred.
to the islands against the dona. On one knowledge of His Excellency that occasion, Sir Francis was betray- The police displayed the most the notorious pirate Chui Aqui ised by the islanders and forced to commendable energy, promptitude at the head of these incendiaries flee burriedly to so and skill in the extinguishment of a reward of 8300 will be given lof the flames.
his apprehension.
W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.
May 15, 188, On Sunday evening last, about
LORD BADEN-POWELL
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY FULL OF GOOD STORIES
Lord Baden-Powell's autobic Boy Scouts, when he went buck graphy.
Lessons from the Var to London and was caught with sity of Life," abounds with good papers in his possession showing stories, told with the
Chief maps of Great Britain's fortifica Scout's characteristic breeziness. tions that he is said to have been It has been said ever since Ma-selling to the enemy of England." feking that B.-P. incurred the ang- er of Queen Victoria by designing Mafeking siege stamps with his own head on them, instead of thei Queen's. He states that his staff issued the stamps with his head on without his knowledge.
"As" he says, "they were en
Professor Schneider
searched through the matted vegetation for the remains of several of Drake's) men who were killed by the Indiana and discovered an ancient British eulverin, believed to have come from one of Drake's ships, per- haps the Golden. Hind herself. Several ancient rusted email arms also were found.
い
the
Beside a rock kuown as Muerte," or the Dead One, curator discovered an active aub- marine volcano bubbling up into the sea. Dr. Julio Bustos Naver-1 rete, chief of the Salto. Observa- tory at Santiago, has often claim- focus off the Chilean coast for some ed that there existed a submarine of Chile's recent earthquakes Now the theory has heen advanced that the volcano on Mecha is the foca point for the quakes.
ام
Having printed this lie, the Mecha is steadily rising from
Elsing From Sea, Pittsburg paper then explained the ocean floor, the curator dis- where it got it from.
This statement," it said, "isments with old charts,
covered by comparing his measure. made by a man who says he is a Britisher and that the execution was witnessed by his brother. My story is true,' he, declared.
island are almost all descendants The few white inhabitants on the of two families who settled there in 1840. In the last 10 years only
tirely for local and temporary use can tell you nothing else. My five more, families have settled on it was not a matter of any imbrather saw the execution with his the island. As a result of inbreed. portance, but later I heard that own eyes,
"..
ing, the curator reported, the pre- mostly suffering from tuberculosis, that sent inhabitants STE lazy and rickets, scurvy and scrofula.
it was considered a piece of grass) "My brother explained lese majeste on my part, if not Baden-Powell marched to the place of treason, to print my own head of execution without a quiver, and on the stamps and that the Queen as the cover was being placed over was, very annoyed with me. his eyes, said 'only these words
May God have mercy.
Well, if she was, Her Majesty did not show it, but one the con- trary, sent me inost grarious aur appreciative messages both during directed my promotion to Majer and after the siege, and personal General. It is amusing how rin our gets about.".
On his return from South Africa in 1901, B.-P. received a command
"If reports be true, and I ani sure my brother is to be relied upon, England has put into his ers who over headed her armies last sleep one of the bravest soldi. in foreign lands."
The island is well covered with dense vegetation but mysterious moving and dunes are gradually making inroads into the jungle as strong winds blow the low hills. aimlessly about the land.
cis Drake discovered the first pota
it was on Mecha that Sir Fran-
toes known to the old world. Wild fairy tale was named Walterbury.
The Pittsburgher who told the potatons are still to be found in
great profusion on the island, Lord Baden-Powell, however,
that
to go to Balmoral where he stayed does tell the story of a spy who with King Edward and Queen was shot. In his home and hang had come to the conclusion Alexandra for three days. When ing on the wall of one of the rooms "about 46 per cent. of women were he was leaving, King Edward pre- there is a notice board in French, very adventurous with one leg and sented him with a walking stick. English and Flemish which has a hesitant on the other, e. liable
Thea." says B.P. "taking me tragic history. Ite owner was a to act on impulse."
on one side he began in a serious supposed cripple who eat voice, which, for a moment, ont trolley in Ypres during that war. an exception it caught my atten on Д He writes: So when I came to my heart into my boots and said: The notice says:-
I want to speak to you seriously. |
Kind friends, I stood in the I have watched you at meals and ice-cold water and rescued a child
was not a note.
! It was a slip
DJJ
tion. One such I noted, where a girl-a total stranger to me, and whose face I had not seen-trod in
a way that showed her to be. pos
common sense, as well as of the sessed of honesty of purpose and
occasional frang spirit of adventure.
I happened to notice that she
I notice that you don't eat enough. from drowning, and have no use When working as you do you must of my limbs. Help me....' keep up your system. I am send; Soldiers used to give the suppos ing you some venison to tempt you ed cripple an to eat more. Don't forget-eat note. One day a note blew away more."1
A soldier picked it up and hand had a spaniel with her. This was Then he laughed, and shooked it back, but he noticed that it while I was still in the Army, and hands.
Executed as a Spy.
I was going into Knightsbridge But even better than this story some German writing on it. The no more of it,
paper with Barracks at the time. I thought is the dramatic account of an eye was found that the man was not ship for the West Indies,
soldier reported the incident. It witness" of how B.-P. was shot in
Two years later, on board my the Tower of London during the B cripple: He wis A
I re Great War as a German spy. The gent, who sat in Ypres and repassanger.
German cognised the same gait in a fellow story of the execution was fully night he sent them to the German Wrong. My alouthing was at fault
ceived reports from
When introduced I reported in a newspaper published lines. He was shot, Lord Baden- the lived in Dorset.
apies: Atharged her with living in London.
i
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bays:
It
of
Powell kept the notice board "as
man."
"But have you not a brown and
a memorial," he says, "of a brave white spaniel
How B.-P. Met His Wife, Like native trackers, B.-P. was
די
Shot to death by English soldi- | ers on his return to England as s German spy. That is what hap pened to Major-General Robertson Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, in the habit and deducing charac hero of the defence of Mateking in ter from footprints and gait, and the Boer War and organiser of the (Continued at foot of nézt rul.)
"Yes," (Burprise registered). "Were you never in London 7 Near Knightsbridge Barracks 1"
"Yes, two years ago." So we married-and lived hap pily ever after.
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