THE PAPAROA ON FIRE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 765, 30 December 1908, Page 3

THE PAPAROA ON FIRE.

-«-. S OIAGIiNG FROMdNEW ZEALAND {! TO LONDON. ~*-PLTS BACK TO ST. VINCENT. ; *\ A HOLD FLOODED. _ %a_ _L_criiiu j_!__it_jrn— uori__euj;.j - t r_a rasas absool_xio«..' . ,- Sydney, December 29. The Underwriters' Association have 1 been advised tbat tbe Paparoa, en '- route for London, bas put back te ; St. Vincent, on fire, and it has been decided to flood No. 3 bold. _ Wellington, December 29. Tbe New Zealand Snipping Company received information this afternoon that the s.s. Paparoa has been on lire at St. Vincent. Tbe fire occurred in No. 3 hold, which had lo be Hooded. Tbe vessel, which is of U665 tons, is in command of Captain Clifford, and left Wellington for '**- London on tbe 20th of last month. The cargo taken from New Zealand by the Paparoa was as follows: — * From Auckland: 190 bales wool, 13,291 boxes butter, 379 crates cheese. From Oamaru: Twenty-six bales wool, 42 bales sheepskins, 1 package • general . From Bluff : Nine bales wool, 2668 "Urates cheese, 43 bales sheepskins, 13,035 carcases mutton, 195 carcases lamb, 299 crates rabbits, 17 bales rabbit skins, 52 bales fibre, 114 casks of tallow, 75 sacks fescue 256 bales tew, 34 casks pelts, 10 casks intestines. From Port Chalmers: Seventy bales wool, 392 bales sheepskins. 711 crates oheese, 7 packages sundries, 561 carcases mutton, 605 crates rabbits, 113 bales rabbit skins, 75 casks tallow, 38 sacks fescue. From Timaru: 487 bales wool. 121 bales sheepskins, 3 packages sundries, 5009 carcases mutton, 939 carcases lamb, 93 casks tallow, 52 casks pelts, 1000 sacks oats, 92 boxes kidneys. From Lyttelton : 753 bales wool, 204 bake sheepskins, 1700 boxes butter, 144 crates cheese, 17 packages sundries, 200 carcases mutton, 109 carcases lamb, 116 casks tallow, 67 casks pelts, 77 bales leather and basils, 50 boxes tongues, 1780 bags grass seed. * From Wellington: 267455 boxes butter, 4833 crates cheese, 3931 bales •wool, 234 bales sheepskins, 31. packages sundries, 46 bales basils, 24 bales leather, 11 carcases lamb. The dairy produce was valued at ,£184,000