Show COME ME room OR passengers of wrecked british vessel have terrible experience men bein being 9 forced to guard women from chinese crew melbourne tho the cable has brought further details of tile the of tho the castaways casta ways from the british steamer who spen spent nearly two months on christmas island an all almost barren coral formation foi matlon in the pacific ocean whence they were taken several days ago by the steamer manuka and convoyed conveyed to suva fill FIJI islands mrs mia patrick and her little baby girl who was born bom tinder such novel surroundings on oil a desert island were the first of tile the castaways casta ways to bo be taken aboard the manuka mrs mis I atrick la Is tile the wife of chaplain 11 it Pair pairlea lek V U S N the infant was vaa fed on oil the milk of the acobs goat which was as saved from the wreck of tho the steamer tile tho work woric of transferring mother and child from tile shore to Q the ship was waa dim cult atilt owing to a choppy sea the castaways casta ways had plenty of pro visions and found good water on tho the islands mhd chinese crow of tho the mutinies mutinied muti nied and looted the alle wreck whilo while on christmas Chri atmaa island they refused to work and it was waa necessary for the he chife in embers of tho the party always to keep an armed guard over them |