THE BEGA CASTAWAYS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 8 April 1908, Page 8

THE BEGA CASTAWAYS.

TOUCHING SCENE ON THE BEACH

HYMNS OF THANKSGIVING.

frBESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received April- 8, 9.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 8.

When the boats landed a touching scene was enacted by the forlorn and tattered party.. The women were hatless and bootless. One, was, clad in a nightdress^ and others were but halfclad. All were fatigued and drenched to the skin* and their minds were wearied by the anxiety of the wreck and the perilous journey. The scene when it was. proposed by some cravens to cut them loose to drift helpless, perhaps to eternity, had worn them out, but they formed into groups, and mothers, with little babes in their arms and children clinging round their skirts, stood on the lonely shore and sang two hymns of thanksgiving to Him who holds the sea in the hollow of His hand, who had landed them in safety. There was not a dry eye present. It was the reaction that followed a night full of incidents of alarm and danger.