SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10964, 6 May 1907, Page 3

SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

(I!reßS Assn.— By Telegraph.— -Copyright.) ' BRISBANE, May 4. - l'he German Australian steamer BielMa, -Whose cargo" of copra caught fire, is Milt burning. The plates on the port side red hot.-.* This morning a hole was cut through the plates. The water is pouring m; and the ship is settling down by the -teo_(-' ; -% .-■ "Tlie fire on the Bielfeld ha* been subdued, after burning for fifty hours. The principal, damage was to No. 5 hold, where there were 140 bales of wool. The damage from fire and water is roughly esjamated at £5000. Some of the plates have buckled. ' ADELAIDE, May 4. The steamer Port Chalmers, entering from Hull, struck the wrecks of the Norma and Jessie Darling. She is making water m the forehold. The. extent of the damage is unknown. (Received May 6, 10 ajn.) " ADELAIDE, -lay 6. The pilot launch went out to warn the fort Chalmers, but her -signals were unnoticed or disregarded till too late. The steamer's plates were rent 10ft from the stern below the water-line. * Lite fore peak is full of water. . . ' MELBOURNE, May 6. Advices have been received that the barque Crompton, bound from Melbourne to Queenstown, with 2700 tons of wheat, has been beacaed at Queenstown. Her position fe critical. ' The decks were awash at high water. The disaster was due to sitting on the anchor. /