CAPSIZE AT SEA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 7 April 1908, Page 5

CAPSIZE AT SEA.

THE STEAMEK BEGA LOST. AH ON BOAKD HAYED. GET ASHOfIiTSy BOAfS AND liAb'TS. tPtttsa AssuciAXiOA. ■ SYDNEY, April G. me iilawaara Coiupany s steamer Btga capsized during the r.iglit off Tathrai. The Btga left Tatkiu last night cm Kiuto. Cu.isydneiy, with a laj^e cargo, tt^ftdji?g:alarge nuniotr of Uve» stock. „'pxQ, hours; :?iier its- depart-uro when four jpile» .off the land, the vtssd be»gan ! .t< M jfjll,,. i it is bcl'»wd, owing to <3Wgo ftfhiHiiig. It gra<lually campd ,and enpsjacd. The- pijsse-jagert and ciew, numbering altogtUiei. betwttoi seventy and eighty, wipeotdtd. ia Id lurching boats arid a raft.: .During the^eoKJiteiiKnt. a passein^c, named David Clairke, ocllapsed and Two beats landed dui'ing tli© night at.Guttage Later did raft was washed a*hc*e at Wallagoot, aftea- drifting ee.ven hours All aboard wtav well. /At tlie time of the disaster, the we<ar their was fine and mibty, l-ain falhtg, and alight wind pitvkiJiEg: Keiliof, was stnt to the shipwrecked, people, who saved omlythe' clothes in which they stood. . , • A relief steamer was despatched from Bcxmagus to pick tlicon up at Bcga, in, charge, of Captain Bishop, one of the company's meet trusted officers. The steamer, was loaded and manned by non-unionists. Oz« receipt of ihe news the jointexecutive of the strike committee pateed a resoluti(.n of sympathy for the .company in. its lost. , ,/.,., The Bcga's cargo included a number of blood jj,crse6 and, oilier stud stock for the Sydney <ihow. and bullion to the value of' £2000, shipped' by a bank. A'tor it wea discoveoed tliat the vessel had a v strcng Usi .to start pard distar^s sltown. but wore unnoticed. | . ' The Bega was insurt d for i- 5000.