A FIRE AT SEA.
STEAMER BENALLA’S PLIGHT. I sited Press Association. Durban. July 20. Tin* steamer Benalla, with eight thousand emigrants on hoard, is afire eight hundred miles east ot Durban. Tin* steamer Otaki is hastening to hCr assistance. Durban. July 21. The Benalla is hound for Australia. Her cargo is afire in one hold. Iho Otaki was 1-jO miles away when sho picked up the wireless message. The Benalla is steaming towards the Otaki
LATEST NEWS OF THE VESSEL. ft THE OTAKI IN TOUCH. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Durban. July 21. A wireless from the Benella received last night stated that her position at eight o'clock in the evening was thirty-eight - degrees forty-nine south and forty-two degrees eleven minutes east. The vessel was then steaming at the rate of fourteen knots north-west ward. The Otaki was in touch 100 miles distant.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 70, 22 July 1915, Page 5
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141A FIRE AT SEA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 70, 22 July 1915, Page 5
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