China and the East.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. WRECK OF A BARQUE. A FRIGHTFUL EPIDEMIC. A MONSTER RAILWAY SCHEME. [united pbkss association.] (Received May 10, 1 p.m.) Thursday Island, This Day. Eastern news per the British- India Company's steamer is to the offset that a destructive fire broke out at lohang, GOO houses being destroyed and 300 families rendered destitute. The barque Transit, in passing through Gellol's passage, struck a rock and became a total wreck. The crew took to the boats and reached Hongkong- safely. A strange and unknown disease has appeared at Menra, Japan. The mortality exceeds that of cholera, and is even a more terrible death, which in most instances ensues after twenty ■ four hours intense suffering. Out of 6G oases reported 40 deaths are recorded. The age of tho majority of the persons attacked range from two years to twenty years. The epidemio has vißited six villages. The coustruction of railway from Canton to Kow Loon, which is declared to be the greatest railway Bcheme over started, will shortly be proceeded with. An accident ooourred on the Tionstin Taker Railway, in which ono European and ten Chinamen were killed.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 110, 10 May 1889, Page 2
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191China and the East. Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 110, 10 May 1889, Page 2
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