BARQUE NAUTILUS.
BURNT AT XOU.UEA.
(ISY ELECTRIC TBUOTR U'H.— COI'VIiICUT.) Kyiixi:y, August ID. Nl-:\VS from jSTouniei, reports tho total destruction by fire of the barque Nautilus, bound from Sydney. She was lying at anchor in Noumea, when the cargo was discovered on tire. The crows of the German warships Slone and Thotis endeavoured to arrest Ihe progress of the names, and worked for IJ6 hours continually, but without avail. Finally the vessel was scuttled and ran on the beach.
Two of the crew and one native were suffocated before they could be rescued, ami another seaman was severely burned. The wreck ami cargo wore sold for nineteen thousand francs. The vessel is believed to be insured in the South British for £1,400, and the cargo, which was valued at over £2000, being principally copra, was uninsured.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2980, 20 August 1891, Page 2
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136BARQUE NAUTILUS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2980, 20 August 1891, Page 2
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