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Show FEVER AND SCURVY, Awtnl SatTarlncs or Mallora nt Sea Late News From aanea. San Franct.wo. Sept. 7. The Royal Tarr, . from Australia, anchored in quarrantiue yesterday morning, reporting re-porting fever and scurvy on board and the captain and first mate both dead. - The vessel left Sydn y last March. In July all the stores gave out and since then all the crew has had to live on waste and flour. The appearance of the crew is frightful. Some are toothless, tooth-less, others pitted and scared with gangrene. gan-grene. It is believed the lives of all will be saved. The Associated Press correspondence from Samoa stated that the country is in a state of great unrest. Mataafa is still at Matio with three or four hundred men and has sent out messengers again to raise a party to fight in his behalf. It is generally understood the government is only waiting wait-ing the arrival of an English warship to make a joint demonstration against the natives and to punish those who refuse re-fuse to obey Malietoa. Unless some action is taken without delay there will probably be trouble. The great cause of complaint is the way the salary sal-ary list is climbing up and the currency question. |