FIRE ON BARQUE.
(Per Press Association.)
Christchurch, last night. A fire broke out this afternoon in the sail looker of the Norwegian barque Alma, 470 tons, lying at Gladstone pier. The vessel had discharged a cargo of guano, and taken in ballast, preparatory to sailing for Surprise Island. A lighted candle overturned in tbe locker, and set fire to a pile of oakum, and tbe outbreak was only extinguished after some difficulty, with the assistance of a tog and the fire brigade. Five or six sails were badly charred and burned,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1558, 14 September 1905, Page 2
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