Disastrous Fires and Floods
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. LP^B UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION.] Thursday Island, Dec. 17. Eastern news by the B.L Company's steamer states that by a fire at Tien-tsin, a port of China, forty houses were destroyed. Five fires occurred in Hong Kong in one day. Gre^t damage to property resulted, but jno loss of life is reported. The fortifications at Pescadores Islands, Formosa Channel, are proceeding. Heavy floods were caused by the Yellow Eiver overflowing its banks, and great misery resulted. The Government are supplying provisions to over 100,000 people, who have been deprived of their homes. The loss of life is estimated at a million, and the greatest distress prevails. Cholera ia raging at Honoa, but in the Philip, pine Islands it is dying out. At Manilla 360 deaths out of SOO cases were reported iv five weeks. At Canton the silk trade is depressed.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 73, 18 December 1888, Page 2
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