Arrival of the 'Frisco Mail
YELLOW FEVEH RAGING. FATAL FIRE. | Per Press Association.] Auckland, November 3. Tbe Moana to night brought 432 bags of mails for New Zealand, and 920 tons of cargo, the largest ever brought litre by the mail boat. She had 77 passengers booked for Sydney, and loft ai 10 p.m. for that port. The Mahinapua left for south with the 'Frisco mail this afternoon. The yellow fever plague has been raging in tho States of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Texas. Deaths in New Orleans 61, and Alabama 25. One of the worst disasters in tho history of South Dakoto occurred at Plankingtou at midnight or October 16th wi.en seven lives were lott by tbo burn iug of the girl's dormitory iv tho State Industrial School. The burned structure was of wood three sturies in height About 25 pprsous it) tbe school escaped iv their night clothes. The search for tho bodies of tbo uufortuoato ones revt aUil tho fact that SKVfn girls had perihhr^l. Each was burned beyond recoguitioo.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 109, 4 November 1897, Page 2
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173Arrival of the 'Frisco Mail Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 109, 4 November 1897, Page 2
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