WORK OF FIRE BUG.
■ - , m ■py"P SYDNEY, October 16. Evidence was given before ah inquiry into the cause, of!. the fire which broke, out on a big steamer at: Milley's Point, Sydney, anb'ut a^month ago, which show, ed'tlie work- to be < that of a fire bug. The fire was *■ first seen late oil the night of the vessel's first day m port, ai^d it quickly, ate its way through the great quantity of cargo which , was stowed below. It burned all through the night, : arid did extensive damage. It was. impossible to say at'' the' time what caused the fire, and -the' fact that a strong guard wa3 on duty led the officers to believe 1 that the outbreak was the result of spontaneous. .'combustion. That theory svas accepted at the time, but when experts went into the damaged vessel they found out the cause. At the inquiry it was stated that someone had' broken into the hold, and by removing -several locks', had reached the bottom of the steamer, and it was. there that the 7 fife started. There was nothing forward to oppose the belief that the fire was wilfully caused by sorne. person or.. persons unknown.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14446, 5 November 1917, Page 7
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