BURNING OF A VESSEL.
• GREAT LO3S OF LIFE. (Per Electric Teleorafh— Copymoht.) fP»R PaKSS AB3OCIATION.) (Received 1.30 a.m., May 17th.) Bbisbanb, May 10. The schooner Rhoderick Dhu has arrived from Mallicola ißland, one of the New Hebrides. Her captain reports being informed by the natives that a vessel hailing from Queensland was burnt off the coaat there, and that many of those on board perished ia tho tianiea. The sur»ivora, 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. The flames spread so rapidly that many had not time to reach the deck, and lost their lives. News of the disaster was con6rtned by another tribe further down the coast, but they were leas precise as to the destruction of the vessel and the loss of life. The Roderick Dhu made diligent search m the neighbourhood, but could find no trace of the vessel or her crew.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4541, 17 May 1889, Page 3
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166BURNING OF A VESSEL. Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4541, 17 May 1889, Page 3
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