NEGLECTFUL ENGLAND.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 102, 1 May 1908, Page 4

NEGLECTFUL ENGLAND.

REPROVED IN BEHALF OF THE, COLONIES.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.]! (Received May l; 8.15 a.m ) • Speakmg at the Lord Mayor's EastPt.banqtwt, at the MansioS Bouse Mr Coghlan, Agent-General for-New^outh. Wales, said that one entente was very much neglected by Britain namely the establishment of 2

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THE BROOME DISASTER.

•.VESSELS ■RETURNING TO PORT.

SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received May 1, 10 a.m.) PERTH,.May 1. ; Latest reports make the number of pearling vessels wrecked thirty, but this may be reduced. v Several vessels _ returned to port in •a crippled condition, and others may ;be sheltering: \ Wreckage was met one hundred miles from the scene of the disaster. Search vessels are out. Some members of the crews of - wrecked' boats drifted out to sea on the wreckage. Many narrow escapes are reported. It'is estimated that the loss to the Broome fleet alone will be from fifteen to twenty thousand pounds. A telegram from Condon reports the wreck of the lugger Cleopatra, when three men were drowned. GasHn, one of the whites drowned at Broome, was a New Zealander.