FIRE ON SS. TE KAO.
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(by electric telegraph—copyright). (Received November 18, 9.12 a.m.). LAUNCESTON, November 18. The Te Kao has arrived from London. The captain reports that on October 7th, when 125 miles off Capetown, a fire broke out in two of the afterholds. He put into Capetown. The two holds were filled with water and the fire extinguished. The whole cargo, consisting of 18,000 tons for New Zealand, was discharged and sold by auction. The value of the goods destroyed is unknown, and the origin of the fire is a mystery. He thought that when placing new rolling chocks on the vessel's side one of the red-hot rivets used may have fallen into the charcoal insulators, igniting them, and that gradual smouldering had followed. The damage to the vessel is the destruction of the insulators of the refrigerating chambers. The Te Kso will only be able to take half the usual cargo of meat from New Zealand.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 369, 19 November 1898, Page 2
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