DIREIUL ACCOUNTS FROM THE NEW HEBRIDES.
\ Direful accounts (writes a Noumea corre- , spondent) are almost daily received from the New Hebrides of the terrible ravages the fever 1r making there, many deatli3 having occurred amongit tho whites. Dysentery is making sad havoc among the native population, on one p.antation thirteen, and on another nine, having succumbed in one week. The oldest settlers say that tho season has been the worst in their experience, the wet aeaaon having been of unusual duration. The local military hospital is pearly fully, of invalided soldiers l tO m the islands, and the men-of-war on the station are fully occupied in transporting then to and from Noumea. It is a rare thing to' loar of one escaping the fever ; even numbers of the crewe of these vessels are attacked, although they never set foot on shore.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7921, 13 April 1887, Page 5
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