UNION COMPANY STEAMER AFIRE.
ABANDONED BY CREW. .Auckland, June 18. The Union Steamship Company's Wailolara has been abandoned by her crew a lire. She was loaded with cargo from the I’aeilie coast of America. A relief steamer i- being senl. Regarding Hie loss of (he Wailolara, the captain decided lo abandon (lie steamer when about 200 miles from land, owing to a lire in her cargo of copra and. oils, representing a value of C2sff,ffU'ff. The crew number forty. It is understood Die boats an- well provisioned, and a relief steamer is hastening to the vicinity from the near-e-1 pol’i, ll is anticipated if the wind and weather are reasonably favourable Ibe crew will be able io make land in two or three days.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1727, 19 June 1917, Page 3
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124UNION COMPANY STEAMER AFIRE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1727, 19 June 1917, Page 3
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