BARQUE ON FIRE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 5

BARQUE ON FIRE.

CARETAKER'S NAREOW ESCAPE.

fpaxsa jLSsqpiAvioK.] J Sydney; April 5. The. barque Djonlo©, wbioh arrived from Lyttelton six weeks ago, took fir\> 'a* 2 O'iiVtik ihk 'moi-niai^. »' The vessel was being difetnantled. ' Only thecaretak€a t 'was aboard. A riding lamp fell frpan $he , and, p^' fire to a quantity. of lowe timber.: The fire did a good deal of damage before it was wrtmguiahed. , r The caretaker narrowly escaped death, t«dng r«oued from: his bunk in the nick p.ftime ( by.,saalorßof a. neighboring aihip. ,