FIRE ON A STEAMER.
YHTOKIA SLIGHTLY l>A\l.\(iKD. 15\* Telegraph.--Piv-s Asocial ion. Wellington. La >4 A lire broke out after two oVhn'k this aitfi'iioou on tin' Uudilarl-Pai'k.'r si earner Vic.t oria, which arrived frcm the Miul'a this morning. in ronla lo Auckland, Smoke was >oeu coming from Xn. n hold, and tins liiv brigade was ijiiii'kly Mimmoneil. Cur lend of 11()' ( 1 was employed, mid in than an hour the lire was complct-ely under control.
The ;cat u; i:-i- ' '..': v v.as amc-gst some ehall' and Hour slacked next to the bulkhead between No. :i and No. -1 hold*. This and a quantity uf general nil ;ii, all from Dunedin, made up (lie eonlcnts oT Xo. " hold. The damage hv lire is believed to be . but a genii deal of water found its way through the cargo. The bold is being unloaded, so that, nil examination of the ship may he made. His not thought, she lias suffered any structural injury. Three, or four imen were overcome bj fumes in the lioM, and were removed to the. hospital, hut- their condition is not serious.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1915, Page 5
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182FIRE ON A STEAMER. Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1915, Page 5
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