FIRE ON THE MAKURA.
MAILS DESTROYED
[Per Press Association.]
Wellington, April 9
The Secretary of the Post Office has received the following; telegram from the Union Company, Dunedin :—"Referring to our telegram of yesterday, Sydney has just cabled us that a further message has been received received from the captain of the Makura at eight o'clock last night, some 210 miles from Sydney, as follows: "We are in very heavy weather. Fifty bags of Xew Zealand mails have been damaged by fire and water, some being totally destroyed."
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 79, 10 April 1913, Page 5
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88FIRE ON THE MAKURA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 79, 10 April 1913, Page 5
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