SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.
Wkllinv.t.'X. May 81. Arrive*!, at 10 a.m.—Gothic, from London via way ports. The Marine Department has been informed that the steamer M:UTamarra. tons, recently purchased in Australia bv ihe Mokau Coal Company. has gone ashore eight miles south of Opunake. and is likely to become a total wreck. The crew landed at Opunake at 1 o'clock this morning. The Marramarra was a wooden screw steamer of 30 horse power built in Sydney in ISH4. Ai'i May 30. Arrived at 10 a.m.—Waikatofrom London, alter a passage of - r >9 days. On May 18 a fire was discovered in No. 5 hold, supposed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion of tarred felt. The fire was extinguished after pouring in water for three hours. The damage is believed to be small.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 30, 1 June 1896, Page 2
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