A RUINED PROVINCE.
« Atbaka, August 25. ' The whole countryside presents a nightarelike aspect, every yard showing signs : the destroying hand of the Dervish rule. < Wages are deserted, walls crambliug, id everything suggests misery and decay, his is the country of the unfortunate nalin, whom Mahmud maßsacred last sar. If any feeling of loyalty towards the 'halifu. ever existed, it must have been i estroyed by his pitiless annihilation of a < hole province thus. ' Those of the inhabitants who remain ( re practically destitute, living in grass idlers of tho rudest possible construeon, but behind the march of our troops >me fugitives are returning to the scene i desolation, which was once their home. — Outer's special in the Soudan. Presbyterian Church Services. — Sunday ext: St. Andrew's 11, Matawhero 2.30, : heatre Royal 7, Rev. James G. Paterson. ( ountry Services: Karaka 1), Ormond 3, 3d Patutahi 7, Mr F. Rule.— Advt. I
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8329, 30 September 1898, Page 3
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148A RUINED PROVINCE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8329, 30 September 1898, Page 3
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