STATEMENTS IN PARLIAMENT
BULK OF THE MAILS FOR NEW --: -ZEALAND, i
. Just before the House;adjourned' for supper last night, the Hon.. G.. W. Russell (Minister of Marine) informed the House that a very serious marine disaster' had occurred. A few days ago a large steamer belonging.to the. CommonwealthDominion line left Australia for Home laden with, provisions for the Mother Country. _,"I und^tand," he said, "that she was loaded by free labour. ; She was calling .at.-New •Zealand/for the purpose oflobtaining_coaL,.,»Shor.tljvbefora.midday to-day word was received from the lighthouse-keeper at Cape FaTewell that the's.'s' Regiilus 'had" been seen towing two boats, containing 60 persons, -the officers and crew of the ship. The.sinking -of the ship.' was, the result p£ an internal, explosion, which, acted so. speedily that there was- np'time to save anything except' the lives- of the officers and ..crew... And 465, bags of mails have.gono to the bottom' of the sea." The bpats, he added, were making for Kelson.-.: The Hon., Arthur M., Myers-.said' that on the agents of the ship applying to him to have her bunkers filled with; coal he gave the answer that it was impossible, owing to the complicated state of affairs in Australia and the scarcity of coal 'here. Sir Joseph Ward (Postmaster-General) said the great bulk of the mails on board were for New Zealand.......Therec.were almost sure to be English and Indian mails on board. . ■: :
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1917, Page 7
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