FAMINE IN NEW GUINEA.
Sydney, September 15. New Guinea is suffering from drought. I Last year the country was burn; np and the crops failed. Tin- yen has been almost rainless, and thenis little hope of any falling before December . The natives arc famine stricken, and some have died of starvation. Teachers and scholars at the mission stations are living on rice. r'ever. is increasing on the coast and sevra! deaths have occurrec among South Sea Island missionar ie».
CABLE NEWS.
TSITBD PEEBS ASSOCIATION" —BY BLECTHIC TELEGE.VPiI.—COPYRIGHT.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81848, 17 September 1906, Page 3
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87FAMINE IN NEW GUINEA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81848, 17 September 1906, Page 3
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