Sickness at Pt. Moresby

Severe North-West Season

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, May 28.

LATELY there have been many cases of sickness in Port Moresby. An epidemic of influenza, colds, and den gue fever has swept through the town and the native villages in the district, causing great inconvenience.

It is approaching the end of the North-west season, which nearly every one agrees, has been on the whole the worst one for many years past. Heat, mosquitoes and fever have made the season pretty nearly unbearable, and it is a great relief to everyone that the south-east season has at last come in, with its cool and invigorating breezes.