SHIPPING DISASTER.
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association^—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
AN ACTIVE SEARCH
NO FURTHER NEWS
(Received March 30, 10 a.m.) BRISBANE, March 30, t Consequent on the small quantity I of. wreckage' that • has com© ashore, there is a growing opinion that the I Adelaide Steam Ship Company's [ steamer Yongala foundered immediately after.,striking,- and , sank in deep water with all hands. j Two men have reported that they heard the blowing of whistles and the noise of an explosion off Bowling Green on Friday afternoon. The steamer -Grantola, sheltering there at the*time, heard and saw nothing. Little importance is attached to the report. ;';;'-.-.■ /.;■• . : . -.■"-. -' .< ~ • '■■'■', The-. Government is taking an active part, in the search. The firemier (Mr Denman) has ordered that no expense shall be- spared. The finding of. a mail-bag is accepted as strong evidence of the vessel's foundering/ias the mail-room -was below the deck. . The finding of the bag so soon is taken to indicate either that the vessel opened out or has broken up. There is the usual, crop of warnings and. coincidental escapes associated with. wrecks, and the number who, have travelled by vthe Yongala} tand failed to do so. , An authentic ..list, of those who were aboard the Yongala is: no,t,, yet available. Enquiries are proceeding. ;'<-; : -...-.;.',-■;'• '•■ ;''•'•'.' ' .-..'-.' '> ■;.;■' TheJcargo included'£l2oo worth of'l sugar and;- machinery valued, at £BOO, —Jboth the, property, of the Colonial Sugar Company. \ • The Adelaide Steam Ship Company's steamer Woolawra■', will take up the running of the Yongala. '. !
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10201, 31 March 1911, Page 5
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243SHIPPING DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10201, 31 March 1911, Page 5
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