FIRE ON WHAKATANE.
PERTHSHIRE'S xM^CHINERYI DAMAGED. '
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph-^rCopyright.) (Received May 6, 10.55" a.m.) •_..." London, May 5. . The B.s. Whakatane has arrived at St. Helena. She reports a fire m the forepeak on April 50th. It was extinguished after five hours' fighting. Only stores were damaged. , [The Whakatane reached London from New Zealand on March* 31stj< 'with 11,832 bales of wool, and was on. the 'outward voyage.] •" "• ' DURBAN/ ..May 5. The Perthshire, when 640 miles south of Durban, sent a wireless that she was returning, her machinery,! Uifig defective. , ' '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13373, 6 May 1914, Page 3
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