BOUND OVERSEA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 792, 15 April 1910, Page 5

BOUND OVERSEA.

BRITISH SETTLERS FOR CANADA. By T«lejrr»Dl|-Prees Association-Qopyrleht , Lptjcfciii Aprjl 13. ~ Nine thousand five hundred emigrants sailed from the Clyde during the last three weeks. There are .among them many tradesmen, mostly for the United States, and agriculturists,mostly for Canada. , The Salvation Army sent .750 Londoners to Canada during the last fortnight- They took with them .£30,000 sterling, some taking from" .£IOOO to .£2OOO apiece, . ■ SELECTED ENGLISH YOUTHS FOE AUSTRALIA. London, April 13. The Rey. R. L. Gwynne, of the Kentish Colonisation Association, who visited the colppies sqme time. ago; is sending twenty respectable Kentish youths tq Adelaide, Fydhpy.; rrid Mqlbourne, They leave by the Osterlej. "-.> EXPLOSION ON THE CAJRNRONA. , " i' '■■ — '. ■ ! . ~ REFUSAL TO" RE-EMBARK. . . London, April 13. , The. emigrants refuse to resume their voyage on.'the steamer Cairnrona, on which an explosion recently occurred, and are returning to Rotterdam, thence transhipping to • steamers bound for the United States. ....

[A fire in the coal bunkers of the Newcastle steamer Cairnrona, carrying 900 Russian and Armenian emigrants for America;-caused an explosion off the Sussex coast, a|iout 70 people being injured. A panic followed. Many men attempted to rush tho women's boats, and in the struggle a Toman's spino was broken. The British crew, however, using determined measures, prevented a disaster, Tho. Bailors 'knocked' men down right and left. Four .of the passengers jumped overboard,' but were rescued. Finally all those on board were transferred to other' steamer's, which carried them to safety. The fire on the Cairnrona was suppressed.] '.