EASTERN NEWS.
Sydney, Dec. 4, Reports received from Hong-Kong slate that the typhoon season has been unusually severe. Many wrecks are recorded and numerous lives lost. In the Wancbou district disastrous floods have occurred, and several villages washed away, several thousands of persons being drowned. It is rumored that in the Wauohou country people have been reduced to such straits that thev have resorted to cannibalism, Thursday Island. Dec. 5A "real fito occurred at Foochow on November IHb. Two thousand houses were destroyed and forty-one lives wore loS q'he steamer Denbary, which left Singapore for Hong-Kong on October 21st with 400 Chinese passengers, has not Since been beard of, and it, is feared that she has been lost,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1979, 7 December 1889, Page 1
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118EASTERN NEWS. Temuka Leader, Issue 1979, 7 December 1889, Page 1
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