Foreigners' Cinema.
was represented to the Government by the Master of the "Dale", that his vessel was so much crowded that it was impossible to maintain order and discipline, and to separate the sick from the healthy on board.
Indeed many of the Chinese passengers became mutinous, and attempted to escape, an attempt which was put a stop to by the vigilance of the Police Guard, but not before they had been compelled to fire their revolvers at the head of the mutineers.
In any other British Colony, there would have been a Lazarettos ready to receive the sick, but in the absence of any establishment of the kind, an appeal for assistance was made to the Naval and Military Authorities. Commodore Cummins did not consider himself empowered to land to the Colonial Government the "Opossum", a dual hospital ship provided for cases of sickness in the Navy; nor did General D'Aguilar consider himself authorised by the Army Regulations to lend tents. Under these circumstances, with the advice of
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