ANOTHER VANCOUVER BOAT ON FIRE
" '■ A REPETITION OF THE ' WAI--3 ' ' MARINO. (Bouter's Tclecram.l 6 1 (Rec. November 16, 9.30 p.m.) ? • Vancouver, November 15. I Ai fire broke out on the s.s. Wai kava, lying in dock, to-night. Th 0 circumstances are similar to the out braak on the "Waimarino. if (E.ec. November 17, 1.25 a.m.) y Vancouver, November 15. it After three hours' fight the fire o the Waijcawa was got under cojitro One hundred tons of copra were run ed—a' loss of. £2000. The cause .of fb fire is a- mystery. The copra bad boo lifted from the' after-hold to a positio 'tween decks. The theory of spor taneons combustion is doubted. lb other cargo was uninjured. The loss of the copra cargo on th Waimarino is. estimated at £4000. An investigation of this coincidence is proceeding. [The outbreak on the Waimarmo o< 3- curved in the copra- hold, presumabl 1- from spontaneous- combustion.] id ; —: fThe table news is thi« iesn* icoredit< to th« Ixmdon "Timee" hej appeared ) ,<? theLt journal, but only 'where expreij] of itited i» enoh ne-ws ths editorial opinic i. ol "Thß Timor"! 1 -.-Jss
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2931, 17 November 1916, Page 5
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189ANOTHER VANCOUVER BOAT ON FIRE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2931, 17 November 1916, Page 5
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