INTERCOLONIAL.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 19, 13 August 1895, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

;\ ~ t.sMaif.--' . Mblbotjbfb, August 10. ' A memorial' service will be held in the cathedrajjfor the martyred missionaries. A fire broke out on board the steamer . Orient, in a bunker where tea was chiefly .stored. The compartment was watertight 1 and the fire confined to it. Owing to the •• - ijtaantity of water pourad into the steamer ' . she had a dangerous Hat, and had to be '.- hauled on an even keel before the operation of extinguishing the fire could be ■ proceeded with. The fire at one time ' assumed a serious aspect. The bunker ' where the outbreak occurred was leaky ' . and unable to bold sufficient water to ; quenoh the fire. It was feared the walls .. of the bunker would crack and let the i fire spread beyond control. .""•••' ■ August 11. The fire in the Orient was soon subdued after the door between the water- . tight compartments, which had been left - . open and allowed the water to escape, ■ was closed by a diver. Most of the ' cargo in the forehold was destroyed, and the. internal, fitting* of the vessel were , much damaged. ; '■ . -Stditkt, August 10. / Farther particulars of thejvreok of the ' - Catterthun show that the survivors had a ' - terrible experience in the boat, which, on ' being lowered, was struck by a sea and .' " had;, a large hol&, knocked in her bojr. As a consequence they had to keep ■ bal- ■ ing during ; the whole time they were in ' her. . They- were in a miserably ex- ( - hausted condition after immersion, and their misery. was accentuated by the seas ■ - constantljrfbroaking over the boat. ' Great, praise is bestowed on the crew for. the way they stood to their posts and . " worked in the face of almost insurmount- I able difficultws. 1 • . The' National Ship wreck. Society have taken in hand the task of relieving any. distress caused by the wreck. >-'■ f . . ' August 11. The Catterthun survivors have arrived here. Arrangements are being made by the agents for ..the ■ accommodation of the crew at a Ohinese'boarding house. The tugs picked up a second empty jgitter, also wreckage and another body, 'sTOic distance from the scene. A quantity of wreckage . was also sighted ./. in the vioinity.of Orowdy Head,