Disasters at Darjeeling.
* The Darjeeling district in North east India, has been visited by an earthquake and heavy flood. Serio is ' losses of life and properly have been suffered. 1 Twenty inches of rain fell in tweDty-four hours at Darjeeling. la the sudden flooding of water courses, a hundred natives perished. Many of the tea plantations were changed by terrible landslips caused 1 by the phenomenal downpour. The Dhool Bazaar wa3 over 1 whelmed, and in the disaster two hundred natives were killed.
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Manawatu Herald, 30 September 1899, Page 2
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83Disasters at Darjeeling. Manawatu Herald, 30 September 1899, Page 2
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