A STEAMER ON FIRE.
The Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company's Flinders arrived from Launceston and way ports this morning. She reports that four miles out from Georgetown (Port Dalrymple), a fire broke out aboard, but though speedily extinguished the wool which she was carrying was considerably damaged ; 400 bundles of straw were jettisoned to ayoid risk of ignition.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1724, 1 December 1887, Page 2
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57A STEAMER ON FIRE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1724, 1 December 1887, Page 2
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