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A MEMORABLE CYCLONE.
RETURNS OF LOSSES CAUSED.
Brisbane, December 7.
From a return dealing with the losses
caused by the terrible cyclone experienced
on the coast near Cape Melville, in Torres
Straits, early during the current year, it
appears that altogether 245 lives were lost,
while the vessels destroyed numbered
about 30 Only seven of these were
British. The others belonged to Japanese,
' Malays, and South Sea Islanders.
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