BURNED AT SEA.
LOSS OF A STEAMER.
THE BERWICK CASTLE.
MESSAGE FROM NEW ZEALANDER.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ]
GISBORNE, Monday.
Private advice has been received from Dr. R. M Muir, of Wellington, who was travelling by the steamer Berwick Castle from Captown to England, that the vessel has been burned at sea.
Dr. Muir's cablegram was from Mombassa, British East Africa.
The Berwick Castle was a steamer of 5891 gross tons, built at Glasgow in 1902, and owned by the Union Castle Mail Company. Her dimension.", were : Length, 398 ft; breadth, 50ft; depth, hi it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17296, 21 October 1919, Page 6
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