CHRISTCHURCH.
This day.
Between £3CO and £400 has been collected for the sufferers by the Waimate fire up to the present time.
! A public subscription is being made for the Portuguese castaways whose signed statement as to their sufferings appears in this morning's paper. It appears that while in the bottom of the boat they were so reduced by hunger as to eat the leg off one of their dead comrades .
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3050, 23 November 1878, Page 2
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71CHRISTCHURCH. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3050, 23 November 1878, Page 2
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