NEW ZEALAND PASSENGERS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND PASSENGERS.

THE NIAGARA'S COMPLEMENT.

Reference is made in the cable messages to the fact that included in tho Jiassenger list of the Empress of Ireand were several passengers from New Zealand, who sailed in the Union liner Niagara, which, left Auckland on April 11th, for Vaticouvor Among them wore Mr.-and' Mrs W.. R. Bloomficfo, and Miss Bloomfield. of Auckland, who are reported as missing. It is not known whether any other New .Zealaudere, who travelled to Vancouver in the Niagara, besides those niAntfnned in the cable messages, were on board the Empress of Ireland. Quite a number of the Niagara's.passengers reached England by other steamers from Canada and the United States twelve days ago. It is possible, of course, that passengers who : broke their, journey after arriving in Canada, may have booked passageto England iii the ill-fated ship. The UnioniSteam Ship' Company' aro the Australasian agents for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, tho ships of both firms forming links in tho "All Red Route" from New Zealand. A representative of "The Press" was informed last night by the local manager of the Union Company (Mr S. X.' Sleigh) that passengers from Australian ,aud New Zealand ports, who travel to Vancouver by the company's steamers, are not" confined to the C.P.R. ships for the Atlantic crossing, but .hare the choice of travelling in the steamers of a number of trans-Atlantic lines. As a matter of fact, very many of tho passengers go to New York for the sake of travelling across, the Atlantic in the leviathans, which sail out of that port. Among the passengers who left New Zealand in the Niagara for Canada were Lord. Rochdale,and Mr J. H. Estill (Travelling Commissioner for the Port of London Authority), who were recently in Christchurch.