EASTERN NEWS,
Thursday Island, May 10. A destructive fire broke out at Tchang Situ, a hundred houses being destroyed and three hundred families rendered destitute. The barque Transit in passing through GiUar’s Passage struck a rock and became a total wreck, The crew took to tha boats and reached Hong Hong safely. A strange unknown disease has appeared at Miura, Japan. The mortality exceeds that of cholera, and is oven a more terrible death, which in most instances, ensues after twenty-four hours’ intense suffering, Out of sixty-six cases reported forty deaths are recorded. The age of the majority of persons attacked ranges from two years to twenty years. The epidemic has been in six villages, The construction of a railway from Canton to Kow Loon, which is declared to be the greatest railway scheme ever started, will shortly be proceeded with. An accident occurred on the Tientsing Taka Railway, in which one European and ten Chinamen were killed.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1891, 14 May 1889, Page 1
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158EASTERN NEWS, Temuka Leader, Issue 1891, 14 May 1889, Page 1
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