MAKURA ON FIRE.
— fr— —— ' MAILS AND CARGO DAMAGED. The Secretary of the ■ General Post Office (Mr. W. R. Morris)- lias received word from thcgoneral manager of the Union Company that its Sydney manager oabled at noon yesterday that ho had received a wireless message from the captain of R.M.S. Makura, bound from Sydney to Auckland, as follows:— "At 7.10 p.m. found mail-room on T>ort side, No. 2 hold, on fire. South-east gale blowing. Fire extinguished at-7.0fl p.m. Mails and cargo considerably damaged by fire and water." / Tho Secretary of the Post Office has also received the following -.later telegram from tho Union Company, Dunedin to_ our telegram yesterday, Sydney has just cabled us:—'Received further message from captain of Makura at eight last night, 240 miles from Sydney; very heavy weather; fifty bags New Zealand mail damaged by fire and water; some totally destroyed." .The Makura 1 , is due in Auckland tonight, and -was timed to sail for Vancouver at 5 p.rii. to-morrow. Several Wellington people have booked passages by the vessel.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1720, 10 April 1913, Page 6
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171MAKURA ON FIRE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1720, 10 April 1913, Page 6
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