WRECK OF THE GOTHENBURG.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1591, 18 March 1875, Page 2

WRECK OF THE GOTHENBURG.

RECOVERY OF GOLD.—SHARKS A^

THE SCENE,

Telegrams from Townsville and B°^V dated the 10th instant, have been received TO" day. They -hold out no hopes of the recovery .of the occupants of the missing boats ol tme: Gothenburg. . The starboard life-boat when last sew was in a very bad state, with her stem torn ■- out, Her occupants were naked, aha wit - •; out sails or oarß, provisions or water, is concluded that they could not possibly have survived, , | The Gothenburg was then lying intj 1® fathoms of water, and had a strong l«t to | port. Her back was broken, and it was expected that she would break up " tM 1 weather became bad. Wm A diver recovered the gold which was on board. It has been claimed by the Collector of Customs as receiver of wrecks. c The diver, when below getting the gow

saw the bodies of two females from the hatchway of the cabin, but he failed to approach them for the want of sufficient airtubing. He caught two sharks ;in the stomach of one were a human skull and yme bones ; in the stomach of the other he .found bones and apparel. He has forwarded the bones to Brisbane. The survivors from the wreck of the Gothenburgh landed at Bowen, and all of them, except three, left thence direct for Sydney per Victoria (s ) last Tuesday. One is engaged on the Pilot Station, one sick in the hospital, and one disengaged. All of them have free passages to Melbourne. The crew of the Buuyip found £250 in a belt on a corpse which was floating near to the wreck of the The body was too decomposed to identify it. The money has been handed to the Collector of Customs, Townsville.