FRANCE.
General Boulanger, Minister of War, has ordered 2,000,000 new shells. An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging at Clermont Tarrand. Eighteen hundred out df a population of 40,000 have been attacked. Impure water is the cause. One of the keepers of the Pans Zoo was killed on January 6fch by a hippopotamus, who took a sudden frenzy. Miss LindBay, the older of two English adventureseeß, who were recently arrested in Paris for swindling by means of matrimonial advertisements, attempted to commit suicide in prison on January 9 by opening a vein with a piece of glass which she had broken from the window of her cell.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TAN18870212.2.29
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 191, 12 February 1887, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
107FRANCE. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 191, 12 February 1887, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in