LATEST DETAILS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 110, 3 November 1894, Page 2

LATEST DETAILS.

Wkmjnoton, This Day. The postal authorities have recovered oiglitj'-three bags of mails from the Wairavapa, ami hope to get the remaining seventeen to-day. The letters are mostly delivered, but newspapers aro much damaged. Mr Eiar, chief postmaster at Auckland, wires that forty additional bodies were recovered. The officials think that if the weather holds good there may be some salvage !>f passengers' luggage, etc. The Fostuiasfer-Geueral has arranged

to pass free by post letters on business of the Wairarapa relief fund sent to or from mayors of boroughs or other such public officers as may be decided upon to deal with the matter. Sydndy, This Day. In the list of the saved are twentytwo persons who did not book by the Wairarapa in the ordinary way. Mklboubne, This Day. Mr Bowker was a well-known dairy farmer of Aylesford, Victoria. He has recently returned from England, where lie has been arranging to supply butter to the Manchester markets. Ho was proceeding to New Zealand on the same business. Mr Whalley leaves a wife and family here.

Mr Flavall received a telegram from Auckland this morning stating that arrangements were being made to bring his daughter's body to Auckland, where the funeral will take place to-morrow. The latest returns published show that 186 were saved and 165 drowned, 50 being women. The Wairarapa was a steel screw steamer of three decks of 1786 tous gross, or 1028 net, classed 100A1 at Lloyd's. She was built in 1882 by W. Denny and Bros., the well-known shipbuilders, at Dumbarton, for the Union S.S. Company, and was brought out to the Colony by Captain Chatfield, and immediately placed on the intercolonial trade conducted for so many years by her owners. Her measurements were :— Length, 285 ft 2in ; breadth of beam, 86ft 3in ; depth, 23ft 7in. The engines were 292 h.p., and the boiler pressure 731 b. She was last surveyed in March, 1891, in Dunedin. The Wairarapa was one of the most admirably fitted -up of the Union Company's steamers of her day, a fact testified to by Mr G. A. Sala, amongst others, when he made his tour of the colonies. She was a sister ship of the Manapouri.