THE BEGA WRECK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 April 1908, Page 5

THE BEGA WRECK.

A MYSIEKY.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

SYDNEY, April 9. The bab.nco of tho Bega'a castaways have arrivtd.

Ciiptain Bishop described the sinking o£ his &taani6<r as a mystery which will nsnain unsolved. She was a staunch -vessel. She could not be opened uj and there was not timei to 11m her achore;

. ' McCubt in, Chief Engineer, declared there wtire peculiar cm-umstances cwnnectod.'with. the foundering which he prefeared not to speak cf till the» proper timeu • Thfro was no water amidships or iir the enffine-room just prior to the, sinking. , It is rumcred tliat a stejwuway aboard the Bega perished