Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-07-08 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ENGLISH LADY IN TIBET.  A Chungking correspondent of the North (lanes Herald reports the arrival at that town, on her way to the coast, of Miss Taylor, of the China Inland Mission, after about a year in Tibet. Miss Taylor first attempted to enter the country from the Indian side in 1887, but Sikkim was not then under British control, and the opposition of the officials was too much for her. She then made the attempt from the Chinese side, taking with her from Darjeeling a Christian Tibetan as a servant, and lived for about a year on the frontier, receiving Tibetans at her own house. One of her first adventures on the return journey was an attack by a band of brigands in which two of her people were killed and eight wounded, while five of her horses were killed and much of her property was lost. But a lama, who was present, cried out to the robbers that their victims were all women, so she was not pursued; for amonl.st the Ti! etans as well as the Mongolians it is regard( d as a dee adful thing to strike a woman. On Seutember 28th last year the party crossed the upper waters of the Yellow River, and found themselves in the Golok district, which is peopled by robbers,who, however, do not rob within their own territory. The chieftain of the tioloks is a woman, and laws are strictly enforced in her domains, and no bribes taken. In this region the cold was intense. At Sagiaka she saw 500 men go out on a freebooting expedition, and further on the people tried to deter her from entering the Lhassa district by telling her of the fighting going on there, but she found that the contending parties had arranged among themselves not to interfere with travellers. Her Chinese servant, named Noga, behaved very badly, and she had to be protected from his violence by the Tibetans. At length, towards the end of December, he left her, taking all he could with him. For three days at Christmas time she lost her road, and suffered greatly from the rarety of the atmosphere. For a time the party were only too thankful to find refuge in a cave with just room for them to lie down. On December 31st Miss Taylor crossed into the Lhassa district, but was forced to stop at Najuca, three day s from the capital, Nga, having gone before and made a great merit of revealing that a foreigner had entered the country. A military official came from Lhassa, and, after an inquiry, said she could go on to Lhassa, but that if she did he would lose his life. He gave her an escort of nine soldiers and supplied her with necessaries. Miss Taylor says that everywhere she found the Tibetans expressing a liking for the British; they were especially struck by the prisoners during the Sikkim war being kept alive, well fed, and then supplied with money to return to their home. On the return journey the horses were much weakened by hunger. Finally Miss Taylor joined a Yak caravan, and 200 Yaks made a way for them through 20ft. of snow. On January 22nd she left the Lhassa district, and on April 12th reached Tachienllu, in Chinese territory.  An Ashford correspondent telegraphs that a labourer, in disturbing a wasps' test, on Tuesday morning, was almost stung to death, and a horse working with him, which was also attacked, was seriously injured. At the Gloucester Assizes, on Tuesday. Baron Pollock sentenced George White, a Bristol shoemaker, to three months' hard labour for sending threatening letters to local tradesmen. The prisoner wrote asking for £lOO to save him from ruin, offering to pay £2OO interest, and threatening, if the request was not complied with, to put a bullet through the heart of the person he wrote to. A letter was sent in reply, and the prisoner was entrapped by the police.  The bony oi a young man named Lambert was found under the West Cliff promenade, near Messrs. Seedling and Moses's boaty,rd, Ramsgate, on Sunday morning. The skull was dreadfully fractured, and, from appearances, death must have been instantaneous. Deceased belonged to London, but had resided in Ramsgate for the past three months. Owing to the absence of any signs of a struggle, the case is supposed to he one of suicide.