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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14656, 25 January 1912, Page 3

A disastrous voyage terminated on r)ecesil»r 4, when tho French threemasted Echooner Antoinette,'• of 093 tons, -was towed into St. Nazaire with her crew down with bcrri-bem. Tli;; Antoinette, which wa« rvif.!.-/.-.r) m-. ... December 2, left Sa 21 last for Belle I £ k „, JO „ ; . 3 spoken "all well" on Ottok-r 29 lltlag. No., 27deg. "ft". When the. St. Nazaire hcaltli authorities boarded th ■• vessel they found tho whole of the crew in their hunks Buffering from the disease. One of the men had died tl.c day before, but the crew were toe. il! to conduct the burial It was only when the Schooner was 100 days out that the sickness declared itielf. The first two men to develop the disease dVd, and subsequently all the other seamen were affected The American death rate by fiijVide in 1910 was sixteen per one hundred thousand of population. California led the States, the number of suicides in San Francisco h< adinfj the rst The lone -Tell of hot, dry woa'chrr. is seriously fflt throughout New South Vales, niul rain is badly nwh-i There are bush fires in ninny districts.