, 1890-10-15

official circles. When we had an s'epidemic'
of yeI1ow-fever in the city two or three
wears ago, and six Ok eight people fell vic
tins to it, there was intense commOtlOn In
medical circles, infact il might justly be
called a panic, so 0~vcrweighted were those
in authority with their responsibility for
checking the mortality. There is nothing
special being done on thIs occasion 10
abate the current epidemic, serious although
it be, and we have nothing to say against
this, for spasmOdic efforts at sanitary mn
provements during a crisis are rs Il rule
more dangerous than the epidemic which
prOvOkes them. But we note the prevail
ing apathy here, for future reference, II
need be.
The return ship Danube with emigrants
for Calcutta will sail hence. on Monday
evening. The passenger STATISTICS are not
vet completed, but, approximately, she will
take about 700 souls. One of the tme-ex.
pired men is q shopkeeper from Mahaica,
named Pulhun, who is taking back to- INDIA
n fortune of $13, 600. This is T man who
four years ago was robbed of S6,OOO. Inc
emigrantS are under the care OF DR.. SHAW,
whose reputation is a guarantee that they
will be well looked after. On Thursday
night the cook, a black man who is sad TO
have been a native OF Demerara, was
drowned in the river. He had left the ship
without leave.
MI. McTurk, who is now in the POtaro,
experienced a whirlwind or blizzard on the
afternoon of Friday last week, the deScrIp-
ton of which it will be best to lay before
our readers in the Magistrates words =
yesterday (Sept. s. about $50 pm. the
weather set up very black to the east, and
slight drizzly rain fell. | was outside at
the time adjusting my theOdolite to- take
some observations at dusk, and took up the
theodolite and put it in the gallery OF the
MissiOn-house, intending TO go on with
what I was doing as soon as the ram pass
ed, and which I did not consider was going
to be anything more than TIE common
afternoon shower All at once, without
any pIemOnitOry warning, q squat cam
upon us, and my papers which were on %
table began to fly about. The men came
TO assist me in collecting themand the next
thing ] can remember was to lind mNSeit
with a plate of the house across my left
shoulder, squeezed down on my knees OH the
ground and my eyes and mouth hlled with
dust and cOckrOcheS.
All the men were covered at the same
time as myself. 1t did not takG me long to
get out, and one after another the men
crawled out. Luckily no one has been
seriously hurt, my own shoulder being about
the worst.
As soon as we got from under the fallen
Mission-h0use we ran for the old school
honse, but though only a few yards OH, =
down it fell, luckily for us before we got
into it another hougc fell at the same time.
We then ran for the Church, bnt this com
menced to go and so we staid outside until
the wind passed, ] have never seen Fuc'l
wind before in Dcmerara, and while 1T
lasted, and the rain also, one seemed to he
in pandemonium. The trees were broken
on all sides, ard the cane and plantPin trees
of the Indians laid flat.
Not a man anfong MS had a dry rag either
to put on or sleep in last night, but we got
out e7erything this morning. CaniSters Hat
tened and all the provisions damp. l am
sorry that my theodaite is spoiled for the
time being and will / expect, est eight or
ten pounds in England tor repairs. | am
leaving here on Monday morning for the
Omai Creek,
While the wind was blowing and the
rain falling the SIM had q most peculiar
appearance. 1t appeared like a ball OF
frosted silver amidst the gloom. The
whole thing did not last twenty minutes
and was entirely local, but / do not care to
have such another busy time. The houses
on the next hill a quarter of a mile on were
not touched, and in the miners camp half
a.mile off thew knew nothing of the 'Squall.