THE BURNING SHIP. Sydney, January 18.
The survivors who have reached her© were soven days in an open boat before being picked up, and had no coats or boots, though they had plenty of eatables. Great care had to be exercised in regard to water, of which only a sniftH quantity was available, and each mm was put on an allowance of six spoonfuls per day. The whole of them suffered greater from heat. When the boats left the vessel the captain ordeied the second boat to make for Australia. 1 The petroleum in the hold of the ship blazed up, blowing out the decks, and so rapid was the spread of the fire that there were only twenty minute* in which to get the boats away from the doomed vessel, and consequently nothing was saved from her.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 1
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138THE BURNING SHIP. Sydney, January 18. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 1
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