THE LOSS OF THE TARARUA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3078, 9 May 1881, Page 3

THE LOSS OF THE TARARUA.

(BY TELEGRAPH.) Dunedin, May 9. The Daily Times' correspondent telegraphed from Wyndham on Saturday that thirteen more bodies had been recovered. Four have been identified, namely, John Scoone, Alexander Rae, Wm. White, and Bobertshaw Russell Marsh. One of the other bodies is that of a man about fifty years of age, five feet high, stout build, light beard mixed with grey, wearing heavy boots with heel and toe-plates, dark coat, and lightcolored trousers. There was a miner's chamois bag in one of the pockets. Ten bodies have been interred in Fortrose cemetery. Numbers of bodies are now coming ashore and it has been determined to bury them within an enclosure of an acre of land near the scene of the disaster. The wreck of the Tararua has been purchased at auction by the Union Company for £20. Cheistchurch, May 9. Special services were held in all the city churches yesterday in connection with the Tararua disaster. There were large congregations and good collections, which in most cases will be devoted to the relief fund. Auckland, May 9. At all the churches funeral sermons were preached yesterday with reference to the Tararua disaster. The Rev. Mr Macnicol (Presbyterian), as a recent passenger by the Tararua, condemned the absence of precautions in life belts not being furnished as on the Rotomahana.