BURNING OF A VESSEL.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
(Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Per Press Association.)
(Received 1.30 a.m., May 17th.)
Beisbane, May 16,
The schooner Rhoderick Dim has arrived from Mallicola Island, one of the New Hebrides. Her captain reports being informed by tho natives that a vessel hailing from Queensland was burnt off the coast there, and that many of those on board perished in tho 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 tho bunks. The flames spread so rapidly that many had not time to reach the deck, and lost their lives. News of the disaster was confirmed by another tribe further down tho coast, but they were less precise as to the destruction of the vessel and tho 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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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5009, 17 May 1889, Page 2
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