Show TALES FROM SOUTH SEAS In a mining disaster at Unhnaln March 18lh live men were killed being proelpl tuted to the bottom of an lEOOfoot perpendicular perpen-dicular Kbufl Now Britain has bach a series of BCVCPO J earthquakes the trembles being oC daily j I occurrence for a considerable period Dwellings havo been shaken down and great fissures In the earth caused by the I shocks It Is the opinion of Dr Thompson pros I Idenl of the Sydney Board of Health that I there Is no hope of mi early cessation oC I the plague und that the epidemic can hardly bo suppressed under eight or nine I months J Tho Inhabitant of Norfolk island arc In a state of dire distress on account of drought lasting almost a year resulting in the tota1 failure of two successive crops und Hi death of almost all the live stock I In the Inland A peculiar accompaniment of the epidemic epi-demic of plague at Sydney has been the death of thousands of llsh their dead bodies covering the surface of some portions por-tions of the harbor It IK tho theory of the plague experts that the disease has been communicated to tim fish by dead rats |