FIRE ON A STEAMER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1910, Page 5

FIRE ON A STEAMER.

VESSEL UNINJURED. [BY TEIiEGBAPB — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER, This Day. At an early hour this morning smoke was seen issuing from the hold of the steamer Tangaroa (trading to Wairoa), which arrived late last night with a cargo of flax and wool. The brigade was promptly summoned, and a large volume of water pumped into the vessel, thus confining the tmtbreak to a very limited space. When the hatches were removed a bale of wool was found lo be burned through, and it appeared that the fire commenced here. The vessel is uninjured, but a quantity of the cargo (including travellers' samples) was seriously damaged by water. A unique display of Colonial-grown fruit and other products was opened at the Royal Horticultural Hall, London, on Ist pecembei- Jast by tli6 Princess Louise. It formed a remarkable objectlesson of the Empire, .says the Daily Chronicle. It would be a good thing if all the school children who are at present struggling with that troublesome section of a geography lesson known aa "products" could hrtve an opportunity of visiting it. The sight 01 the apples from one British colony alone — so large, so red, so sweet, that even the greediest boy would despair of getting outside more than one of them— should be enough to convert endless lads into enthusiastic fruit farmers, while the tropical {uoduets of the West Indies would cease to be mere names to the children who had seen at Westminster limes and grape fiuit, oranges and bananas, peppers and chillies. Particularly striking \vas the exhibit from British Columbia, which received a gold medal. It occupied the whole of one end of the hall, and comprised nearly 500 boxes of apples, each containing about 401b. The New Zealand exhibit was mote varied, and set forth in miniature the rural industries of the country. It included a display of npples gathoved in Match and kept in cola storage since May.