still continues, and T regret to have te record farther eases "mung Europeans, Two clerks at the Naval Yard, Messrs. Cumin key and Ayostini, were attacked and the former has succumbed to the disease. had been suffering from malarial fever for some time previous and had been weakened in consequence. Mr. Agostini is report-Jed to be progressing favourably. Cnfortunately, Mrs. Agostini has contracted the disease from him. Mr. one of fessers. A, S. Watson & Co.'s staff, who had been removed to Hospital with plague, lis now recovering A number of special constables drawn from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and the Hongkong Royal Artillery (in all 100) have been sworn in to assist in preventing the dw ping of ded bodies in the streets of persons who have died of plague, and are now nightly engaged in this work, not, however, with complete success, for the wily celestial has proved too much for them far, and the damping goes on,
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