THE CHINESE AT PORT DARWIN.
The Port Darwin correspondent of the “ Age" says:—The Chinese are still flocking hero in hundreds, and they now number ■IOOO to about 500 Europeans, while we may soon expect another 1030. We are just now going through a strange season. The cyclones have been very severe. In one day I have seen three iron houses stripped, and two dnys after the township at the Union almost demolished. Oa the sth of December a thunderstorm visited the place with terrifie violence. The wind was not heavy, hut four inches of rain fell in two hours, and the thunder was incessant. A Chinese etore was struck by the lightning and burnt to the ground. Pour Chinamen wore injured. Two days after a heavy shower of rain fell, accompanied by vary little electricity. It was a steady fall, without wind or thunder, when suddenly a tremendous explosion occurred, while a Sash of lightning struck apparently in the centre of the township, lighting up the whole place, and producing a strong smell of sulphur. No one was seriously injured. Singularly, this was the only olap of thunder experienced during that storm."
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2174, 12 February 1881, Page 2
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192THE CHINESE AT PORT DARWIN. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2174, 12 February 1881, Page 2
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