The hostilities betwen the United States and Spain, eventuating in the capitulate of Manila, and the progress of that si visitant the Plague have divided public attention during the week, but as it wore on the havoc made by the epidemic has filled the community with great concern, a8 one after another sad gap has been made in the ranks of the British and foreign community. On the 5th inst. the rate went up to 39 cases and 28 deaths, but this fell on the 6th to 17 cases and 6 deaths.
Another of the Nurses at the Civil Hospital has fallen at the post of duty, in the person of Miss Ireland (Sister Gertrude), who amongst others nursed Miss Higgin when she died of the plague. Miss Ireland died on the morning of the 5th inst. Her funeral was attended by a large concourse of friends and sympathisers.
The death on the morning of the 4th inst. of Mr. Lindsay Crawford, eldest son of Mr. D. R. Crawford (of Lane, Crawford & Ca.), from a sudden attack of plague had a very saddening effect. The young man, only in his twenty-first year, was well-known and erally respected, and the circumstances wing only recently left the It is not known how Mr. Crawford con-long for a trip) were ery table. tracted the disease, but there had been' several cases in the district where he resi Deceased was a gunner in the Machine Gun Corps of Volunteers, and military honours were accorded to his remains. His Excellency the Acting Governor attended among others, in private clothes, a delicate expression of sympathy much appreciated.
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