PAPAROA ON FIRE.
500 MILES OFF CAPETOWN, ADVICE FROM SYDNEY'. SYDNEY, Miircli 19. Tko underwriters have received advice of serious fires in the number 3 hold of the steamer Paparoa. The vessel is now off the south-west coast of South Africa. PASSENGERS AND CREW LEAVE. [Router Telegrams.] TSteoeivod this day at 8 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March 18. A serious fins has broken out on the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steameu. Paparoa of 7697 tons about COO miles from Capetown. The Paparoa is bound for Australia from the United Kingdom and was due to call here for bunkers. The Australian liners liarrabool. Diogenes and Aeneas all responded to ff/ 1 tho call for help late last night. All the Paparoa’s passengers and twenty-four of the crew were transferred to the liarrabool, the remainder of the crew standing by. STEAMER ABANDONED. LATER. Finally the Paparoa was abandoned at eleven at night. The crew and passengers are due at Capetown on Friday aboard the. Barrnbool.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1926, Page 3
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161PAPAROA ON FIRE. Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1926, Page 3
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