FIRE ON A STEAMER.
' i.'-. (By. ;,TolOßraph.—Ptesa \ Association.) : '-'.''v>.;-...--■ ."-'.-m.'^. , ';■.'■•'•'■■:-"iNep!*'> , . January 15., .: At :'an early hour this? morning smoke was 'seen ' issuing i from .the;;hold -of-.the ;steamor :j Tangaroa■.(trading.;to. Wairoa), whicli • arrived 'late; last night with a cargo-of-flax'and wool. ;. Thb .brigade ■ was promptly summoned, and. a .'large volume ; : of; water, poured.iintb .the yes-' sol,: thus.confining the'.'outbreak to::''a. very.liriiited 'space. -When. the hatches were.removed a bale of wool;.was;found, to be burned through, and it appeared, that the fire commenced here.*. Thevessol. is'i uninjured; but a quantity- of, the cargo; (inchiding, travellers' '-■ samples) was 'Seriously damaged by water, -j: ; ''!.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 717, 17 January 1910, Page 6
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98FIRE ON A STEAMER. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 717, 17 January 1910, Page 6
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