SUPPOSED SMUGGLING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13058, 28 April 1910, Page 5

SUPPOSED SMUGGLING.

AT BRITISH NEW GUINEA. Mystsrious Vessels. Press Association. —Telegranh.—(V.r vrK l ’ll BRISBANE, April 27. ' Captain Hang, of the Gorman steamer Siar, reports that when off British Now Guinea he sa>v a steamer of about 3000 tons lying near Ketava Island, and to the northward of the ste'amer were five native sailing vessels. He shaped a course for the steamer to ask’ for Greenwich time, his chronometer being out, but the steamer wheeled around and went' eastward at full speed. The sailing vessels also turned back. Captain Hang went after the steamer but could not catch her. He came to the conclusion that she was engaged in smuggling operations and mistook the Siar for the Government steamer Memo England. When the Siar was a considerable distance' to the southward, the steamer wheeled ■round and appeared to go back towdrds Ketava. . ;