AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
SYDNEY, yesterday. The Torres Straits mail arrived at Cooktown brings- four Chinese for New Zealand. The accounts of the famine in China are appaling. Human flesh is selling forfcoJ. A dps' v active cyclone occurred. Eight thousand Chinese were killed, many of them by drowning. The crew of the Alexandra Barclay escaped, the ship haviug caught fire from spontaneous combustion. . Captain Roberts and his brother were mass»cred at Darwin. In another attempt eighteen natives were '.killed. The enrgo consists of rice and tea. ,»_ . .
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 920, 16 May 1878, Page 2
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85AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 920, 16 May 1878, Page 2
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