AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
DESTRUCTION OP k 8 'II? BY FIRE. [bKUTEBS TKI.KGBABUS.I Bbipbanr, September 5. News to hand from Normanton repurts tht loss of the barque Rockhampton, 417 tons, Captain Killen, at thai place. The vessel took fire, and wan burnt to the water's edge, her destruction being completed by ike ignition of a quantity of dynamite *be had on beard us cargo, which exploded and blew the vessel to piece*.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 38, 8 September 1885, Page 2
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