THE SCHOONER BROTHERS.
(PKES9 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)
BLUFF, May 11
The Magisterial inquiry into the burning of the schooner Brothers was held at the Bluff on Saturday. The Court found the primary cause~was leakage of the benzine stowed under the cabin floor, which had been put there during the afternoon of the day the. ship was burned, and the consequent vapourisation whereby the explosion took place, but how the explosion was caused, and whether wilful or accidental, tbere was no evidence to show.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11581, 12 May 1903, Page 6
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THE SCHOONER BROTHERS.
Press, Volume LX, Issue 11581, 12 May 1903, Page 6
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