LATEST PARTICULARS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 109, 2 November 1894, Page 2

LATEST PARTICULARS.

Diwedin, This Day. Mr Mills, Managing Director of the Company, caunot account for the accident happening under the circumstances reported. Every officer is provided with regulations which set forth in the clearest language the precaution to be observed in foggy weather or when in doubt regarding" the ship's position. Auckland, This Day. A party with a diver and postal and customs officers have gone down to the Island to endeavour to recover the mails which are in the mail room near the forecast. If tho wind be from the Northeast or Southeast it will be impossible to get at the mails, and will also be an additional danger, as the steamer may slip off the ledge on which at present she is resting. The newspaper offices have opened subscription lists for the relief of the distressed sufferers. A police detachment left by the Argyle last night for the Great Barrier, taking tents, tools etc., and timber for fifty shells to bury the dead. Each shell will have affixed a number corresponding with the number giving the description of the body so that relations can in future remove those buried on the Island when identified. The Church of England Diocesion Missionary, Canon Haselden, will conduct tho burial services. Napier This Day. Several of the passeugers booked for Napier by the Wairarapa are not on the list of the saved. Skews, a local cabman, was expecting his brother and family, but only the name of Skews is mentioned as saved, and it is feared the others were drowned. Another sad case is that of Mrs Hollis of Adelaide, who was coming to Napier to see her son who had not seen her for 20 years. Mrs Hollis was a sister of the well-known Pukitapu farmer, Mr John Bennett. Svdndy, This Day. The Sydney Morning Herald, commenting on the Wairarapa disaster, says that so far as it is possible to learn from the particulars that reach Sydney it appears that all on board behaved well and courageously in face of imminent death. Wo have at least nothing to blush for in the bearing of the officers, crew, and passengers in the dread hours of the catastrophe. The Rev. Mclvor, who is supposed to be drowned, was a member of the Passion order and recently resided in Hobart. Miss Sullivan was a Sydney girl. Mr McKenzie is supposed to have been representing the Graphic, and collecting information respecting the passenger accommodation on the Australian steamer. He was en route %o Samoa and leaves a wife in Leeds. Bunting was son of a woll-kuown accountant. Whaley was representative of Marton and Co., SVolverhamptou. The Roys. Peters aud Hotcke were on their way to conduct a mission among the Maoris on bohalf of tho Lutheran Church. Dunckley was a member of the firm of Thomson aud Dnnckley, drysalters. Mrs Raymond was op hpr way to join her husband in New Zealand. ADBLAipE, This Day. The ticket issued for Miss Koeno was not used by that lady, but was availed of by Miss Dickinson.