WRECK OF A STEAMER.
500 COOLIES ON BOARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—CopyrigM. (Received May 27, 10.43 p.m.) London', May 27. News has been received that the steamer Umona was wrecked at the Maldive Islands on the 15th inst. Five hundred Indian coolies were aboard, proceeding to Natal. All were landed on an uninhabited coral island. The Ceylon Government has sent help.
The Umona was a steel screw steamer of the following dimensions:—Length, 281.5 ft; breadth, 38.9 ft; depth. 16 3ft: tonnage, 2031. She was built at Sunderland, England, in. 1890. and was owned by Messrs. Billiard, King, and Co., of London. The steamer ha* beets engaged in the Calcutta-South African trade for some months past; and left Port Natal for Calcutta on March 25 last.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12282, 28 May 1903, Page 5
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