Explosion on Board a Steamer.
*■ [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Oct. 27. The steamer Star of the South, bound from Port Chalmers to Greymouth, put in here on account of her high pressure cylinder having burst when between Jackson's Head and Stephen's Island at 3.50 yesterday afternoon. The mate of the steamer had a narrow escape. He was looking through the skylight at the engines, and had just withdrawn his head when the top of the cylinder blew off, and then fell into the stoke-hole, the firemra narrowly escaping.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5143, 27 October 1884, Page 3
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