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FEDERAL LOAN. SYDNEY, July 25. The Commonwealth ten million loan has been oversubscribed by £lOO,OOO. The money will be used for public works.
SHIPWRECKED PARTY’S ORDEAL SYDNEY, July 26.< -Further details of the Bromilow tragedy show that when the vessel was wrecked, two of ten natives set out for assistance, but failed to return. Rev. Mr Lqssam and the remaining crew made a raft, and drift-
ed for ten days under a fierce sun, without supplies. Three natives' became insane and jumped overboard. Two others left on planks in a last effort to reach land. Lassam and threp blacks kept to the raft; and were cast up on a sandbank where two died. Lassam and the other survivors were found five days later.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 July 1930, Page 7
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