The Feilding Star, Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1897. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 165, 14 January 1897, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1897. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

o This dreadful infliction on the suffering people in India continues to spread, and an increase in the death rate is reported. Two hundred and seventy cases were reported in one district alone, and of these two hundred and fourteen terminated fatally. A singular circumstance is that the disease has extended to the lower animals who are likely to convey the infection from place to place. In Bombay, where tbe plague is still raging, birds are being attacked by a disease which medical men declare is bubonic, modi* tied by its development in animals whose blood is hotter than the blood of mammals. It is said by scientific men that far more people die of fear than die of the pestilence. That may be a very comforting reflection to those at a distance beyond the limits of the danger, but it is a poor consol ation for those within the sphere of its influence. The famine is also gaining ground, but the noble-hearted people of Great Britain have risen to the occasion and enormous sums of money have been subscribed and remitted to India for the relief of the distressed. But although famine may be averted by the goodness of man to to his fellows, it needs a Greater Power to check the fell footsteps of the plague fiend.