LATE CABLES.
DISASTROUS FLOODS. DEATH FROM FEVER By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. [per tooted press association."] Heceived February 7, 12.45 p.m. . 1 STDNBT f ,ThisDar» - A. C. Douglas, Secretary.; Tasmanian Postal Department^ * who was present at the Postal Conference, caught : typhoid fever here a week ago. and died yesterday. ■ i _- ; ,- --j The Board of Health has communi- ; cated with the authorities at Auckland and Wellington urging them to use the greatest precautions with regard to the small-pox outbreak on thei R.M.S. Mariposa. That vesssel on i arrival here will be quarantined and the mails fumigated. Pkkth. W.A., This Day. By the floods in the Geraldton district four persons were drowned, and ! several are in a precarious condition, < owing to exposure. Large numbers j of stock were drowned, and ail the hay and crops destroyed. So severs I has been the loss that most of thefarmers in the district are ruined.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 81, 7 February 1888, Page 2
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