A EIRE AT SEA.
REPORTED BURNING OF A VESSEL,
"By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright I (Per Press Association.)
Brisbane, May 16, (Received May 17, at 1,30 a.m.)
The schooner Roderick Dhu has arrived from Mallicolo Island, one of the New Hebrides group. Her captain reports being informed by natives that a vessel hailin°from Queensland was burned off the coast there, and many of those on board perished in the flames. The survivors, the* natives asserted, died from starvation. The fire was caused by a woman dropping a match into a vessel containing pitch, which was stowed away under the bunks, and the flames spread so rapidly that many had not time to reach the deck, and lost their lives. News of the disaster was confiimed by another tribe further down the coast, but 1 hey were less precise as to the destruction of the vessel and loss of life. The Roderick Dhu made diligent search in the neighbourhood, but could find no trace of the vessel or her crew.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 8496, 17 May 1889, Page 2
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167A EIRE AT SEA. Otago Daily Times, Issue 8496, 17 May 1889, Page 2
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