SPLENDID DISCIPLINE.

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

SPLENDID DISCIPLINE.

(Received April 7, 10.2 a.m.) SIDNEY, April 7. Splendid discipline was displayed on tho Bcga ■■ >> Owing to the excessive inclination of the deck tlieav was. the greatest d;fficulty in getting the boats launched, end the £i£6engea'S transhipped, A. passenger states that during the run a L'dt to port was observed vnich shortly after rwcoreed to starboard. The women and children, who bethaved w»th cahrßoss, were placed in the boats with as jnany nale passeaiirers as tlio beats could accommodate. Then seven passengers and the bulk of the crow took to the life rafts.

Tho cause of the disaster is uiinccountable. The vessel was surveyed a wttl'. ftg''. Clairke, who died from shock, hud been in feeble luaJth.