A STEAMER IN DISTRESS.
Press Association —Copyright. Received April 18, 9.58 p.m. Sydney, April 18,
The steamer Perth reports that she saw rockets and signals of distress off the Tasmanian coast at midnight on Friday. She bore down and found the steamer Karori, which had broken her thrust shaft. The Perth stood by till Saturday night, and transhipped the mails.
The Karori’s engineers effected repairs and she is proceeding to Sydney under easy steam.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9121, 14 April 1908, Page 5
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74A STEAMER IN DISTRESS. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9121, 14 April 1908, Page 5
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