The New Hebrides Hurricane.—A vessel belonging to a Sydney trading company, returned from tlio New Hebrides, gives a sad account of the condition of the islands where the tornado 1 oine months ago destroyed the banana and cocoanut trees. Driven by hunger to extremities, the natives at Molo wore subsisting chiefly on fish with supplies of decayed and unripe fruit they could find about the country. Men women and children were as a result of this diet, suffering from dysentery. Tne bodies of the victims were literally strewing the country, and the sight was one of the most terrible ever witnessed in the Islands. It is only If days ago since the Sovereign left tb,e group, and the sickness
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2522, 29 June 1893, Page 3
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119Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Temuka Leader, Issue 2522, 29 June 1893, Page 3
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