The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-03
4 AUSTRALIAN NOTES.
- i roLLowED M STORMS
Il sn srIsssIc DISTURBANCE.
Z r..t,nued Dry weather Gauss
I - stas,ation in Many indastries
80 ~ Cold Much Larger Than
4 "a Seos-rever In New Guinea

/ ..-,o,,vrR- 3. c., Dec. 2-The
4 V4Nssr warimoo arrived today from
N.:ssv Ringing Australian advices to NO
ve - scrount of the drouth during the past
i ~ v ~ nastcral farming, dairying ana
49,. Industries have been in state OF
49, s,cn with the result that large num-
49, - thrown out of employment.
~. . S,s,resa has prevailed throughout
~ Va s..v,ous colonies, alleviated In part by
~ '-roant expenditures on public WORKS.
sS,sney alone $12oo0ooo has been ex-
Y ~ a public works, In connection with
EsssS 400 mon were employed
Tsstunately the drouth was broken IN
cs.sS~r and many vagaries OF climate are
s",rssed including hailstorms SO severe
nj windows were broken, ana severe
snocks Of earthquake followed. IN wnicn
.s.sra, houses and barns were wrecked
Acecnpanying the earthquakes were curl
err Submarine disturbances vioisntiy rock-
-. ;'sssrs and causing the death of many
~ ~ COOKS strait Capt. Warrall. Of the
$3.50, Wainrh, from Picton to Yelling
y. - ssed through thousands upon thou
ss-x ~ dead fish Just after this violent
s,,ks,arine earthquake, and oficers Of the
.tssner. Rotorua report similar expert
cyclone Plays Havoc.
r.k.f,s are brought Of terrible wind
..sr- which swept over the colonies, caus-
~ ereat damage. The cyclone was most
s,.Struus at Newcastle, passing over the
No shout the middle Of the afternoon on
Nnvesnber s, and during the twenty min
ntes IL lasted damaged property IN tndt
city to the extent OF several hundred tnan-
81 the collapse OF the Adamstown Roman
csshnIic school, In which forty children
vere assembled, ana one scholar was killed
ana two others seriously injured. Great
havoc was played with shipping In the
thejf mornings and drifted in all directions.
AfseR the Head Hunters.
HM 4. Mohawk has been cruising
srnI6r thu Solomon islands to put stop
~ me reprehensibis practices OF a band
al head hunters These head hunters had
made an attack upon one Of the tribes
and had carried on eight women. me
the Mohawk visited the group, and the
chiSf az the tribe of head hunters had been
captured BY British Commissioner Wood
ford. and was held by him as hostage for
The release Of the women. Narova island
Is ths rendezvous of these head hunters,
and Al the village Of Slmbo Commissioner
Woodford and the officers frome the Mo-
hawk endeayored to obtain the release of
the captfves. Their efforts were unavail-
inn. on approach Of the Mohawk, the ma
tives made OF into the interior, and It
was found impossible to follow them
through .he dense scrub. Landing parties
were sent away from the warship, how
ever, and war canoes were captured.
These. with the village of the hostile tribe.
were destroyed.
At the Santa Cruz group. the Mohawk
found that French vessel from Noumea
had visited Santa Cruz and recruited labor,
infringing on the labor recruiting act by
giving natives firearms and ammunition
hawk proposed to cofiscate this French
vessel, but she escaped The Mohawk's
officers stated that the French vessel had
been practically guilty Of slave trading.
Tribal War WaEing.
Reports from Tanna Presbyterian mis-