EASTERN NEWS.
[Per Press Association.] SYDNEY, Joly 14. News by the Catterthun, which has just arrived, states that half tbe town of Nilgata was burned down, 2400 houses destroyed, and several persons perished in tbe flames. Cholera is raging in Saigon, and many deaths are recorded. The plague in Hong Kong is abating, only 16 deaths having been reported in the last three months. The premises of a Chinese inland mission at Painning Fa were wrecked by rioters. The missionaries fled to the city to escape being killed.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 3069, 16 July 1895, Page 2
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88EASTERN NEWS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 3069, 16 July 1895, Page 2
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