A FAMINE FEARED.
The Auckland Star correspondent sends the following items:— "Some idea of the force of the gale and sea may be gathered from the fact that the Vandalia at ordinary times, with four boilers, and 401b- pressure could steam nine knots. On the day of the storm she had seven boilers going, and a pressure of 701b, but could not face it. '
" The fact of many mere months to. 811 in the persona of the shipwrecked sailors and men-of-war crews, who must of necessity remain here for at' least two or three months, added to the total destruction of all native food, threatens to create a famine here shortly. It is to be hoped a pestilence does not break out. Many of the sailors were hurt by accident during the. wreck and are downwith tropical complaint."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1950, 4 April 1889, Page 1
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138A FAMINE FEARED. Otago Witness, Issue 1950, 4 April 1889, Page 1
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