EXPLOSION ON A WARSHIP.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7874, 8 January 1904, Page 2

EXPLOSION ON A WARSHIP.

A BQILER BURSTS.

FORTY-FIVE ME.N* KILLED.

(By Telegr»ph.—Copyriß:ht.l Received 1,. 5.57 P->»- __ ' „ 1 bYDNEY, January 7. A wire from Montague Island reports an explosion on H.M.S. Wallaroo, by which one of the boilers was blown up and 45 men 'killed: ' " •* ' The x news came- from the lighthousekeeper at the island, who reports that me Wallaroo' passed tms forenoon, en route for Sydney, going dead slow. The vessel is expected to/each Sydney on Friday morning, and it was asked that ambulances should be in readiness. • The Wallaroo left Sydney on December 27tb: for Jervis Bafo'<sn route for Hobart, to join the other iresaels o! the squadron. It is unlikely that any details of the catastropho will ty available until the arrival of the Wallaroo, in Sydney to-mbr-row.