NEW CALEDONIA.
PLAGUE , RAGING. A TRAGEDY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrighl Sydney, Aug. 18.
Noumean’news to August 1 states that 88 cases of plague have been reported, 71 proving fatal. The area of infection is spreading. So far the disease has been oonfined to natives.
A tragedy occurred at Kone. A private named Jeandear fatally shot his superior officer, Lieutenant Mathe, and then suicided. The cause is unknown.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 972, 19 August 1903, Page 4
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