THE PLAGUE.
| SYDNEY, February 18. A barque has arrived from Mauiiiius with a case suspected to be plague on board. NOUMEA, February 14. | Prom January 29 to February 4 there were four fresh cases of plague, including two deaths. ; (Per JMoana, at Auckland.) j Chinatown, Honolulu, was almost swept away by fire on January 22. It had its. origin in the firing of a plague spot in block XV, but the wind ri&ing the flames swept the whole block, as also blocks I to IX. Some idea of the extent of the conflagration may be gathered from the fact that 1780 Chinese, 1025 Japanese, and about 1000 Hawaiions were within the walls of the Kawaiahao Churchyard. These figures do not include the Japanese and Chinese women and children in the church building, estimated at fully half a thousand. One result of the fire will be to effectively check the plague.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 13
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