WRECK OF THE STEAMER CHINA
(By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) (Received March 20, at 9,50 a.m.) Sydney, March 26. Lloyds' agent at Perim telegraphs that the P. and O. steamer China, homeward bound from Australia, is ashore at Azalia Point. The China has 498 bales of wool and about £12,000 in specie. Her cargo is valued at £120,000. London, March 25. The China is expected to become a total loss. The passengers, numbering 493, wer« landed safely at Perim, together with their baggage. The vessel's bottom is pierced for'ard. Lloyd's agent reports that the vessel ia fall of water.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9398, 26 March 1898, Page 2
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102WRECK OF THE STEAMER CHINA Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9398, 26 March 1898, Page 2
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