CUMBERLAND EXPLOSION.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13937, 21 July 1917, Page 3

CUMBERLAND EXPLOSION.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OFFERS BIG REWARD.

(I'cr Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, July'l9. The Federal Government is offering a reward of £'2l)l)(i for information regarding the Cumberland out rag*. HOPES -i!' RE-ELOATJNG- VESSEL. (Per Cable—Press Association— Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 20., There are good hopes that the Cumberland will be. re-floated. [When the first announcement ""as made that the Federal steamer" Cumberland had been seriously damaged on the morning of July liih, a few miles oil' (iabo Island, by internal explosions in one of the holds, and had to be beached, the Australian Navy Office stilted that when the explosions first occurred enormous damage was done to tile ship, a gaping hole being burst in "the side, through which a huge volume of water poured. The captain decided at 'ence to make for the nearest land, which was Gabo Island, to beach tiie vessel, but so serious did the position 'become, owing to the inrush ofVater, that the Cumberland was in imminent danger' of foundering, ft was/in fact, slowly sinking, but linnli'y grounded in time to prevent total loss, The vessel is now lying' in a somewhat exposed position,' with decks \iwnsli 'and "all holds, eiiginc-roonis,-aiid boilerrooms Hooded;]