The Wreck of the Wairarapa.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 113, 7 November 1894, Page 2

The Wreck of the Wairarapa.

(PKB PBKSw A88OCIATIOV.) Auckland, November 6. At the sale of the salvage of the Wairarapa to-day the hull complete was sold for t'7o to E. Ford and the cargo for £160 to Captain H. F. Anderson. i Scoullar, of Dtmedin, and Sullivan, of Napier; leave for Barrier to-morrow to j search for relatives— the former for his j father, mother, and sister, and the latter for his niece. Mr Whalley was buried to-day at Pnrewa. Mr Chamberlain, a sxvrvivor, was the chief mourner. The body of a young woman was found last night floating off the Needles, and taken to the burial ground at Catherine Bay. She was not identified. She is about 25 years of age. with dark hair cut short in front, oval face, short thick nose, and rather full lips, and she wore a plain wedding ring. The Nautilus discovered the body of Mark Dickson after passing the Needles. His papers showed that ho arrived in Sydney, per s.s. Austral, from London, aud transhipped to the Wairarapa. Four more bodies were afterwards discovered. One was that of a child, and was identified by his father, Mr Hector Baldwin, from Wellington. Mrs Williams, of Devonport, who had two daughters en the Wairarapa— one being drowned and the other saved — had a singular dream «n Sunday uight. She thought she saw her daughters and a third person standing on a rock, with waves dashing around them. She awoke, and, looking at tho time, saw it was 12.15 am. The dream she told to several people before the news of the wreck came. Dunedin. November 6. In view of the rumors concerning the late Captaiu Mclntosh, Dr Coughtroy, with tho consent of the captain's relatives, thinks it only fair that it should be known that before starting on tho last voyage to Sydney, Captain Melutosh had only recovered from three attacks of influenza, which had disabled hini from duty for a month. On 28th September he consulted Dr Coughtrey, coruplainiug chiefly of great nervous prostration aud that he felt unnerved. He was ordered rest from duty and if he was not better when the Wairarapa resumed her running to obtain further leave. Captain Mclntosh was a native of the island of Tyree, one of the Inner Hebrides. Ho was a single man and came out here about 15 years ago to his mother, brother, and sister. His mother lias since died. Mr Duncan Mclntosh, his brother, is in the employ of Ross and Glendiuuiug, in Dunedin. Tho latest calculation of the Auckland manager of the Union S.S. Company puts tho niunbor of passengers on the Wairarapa at 179, of whom 93 were saved, leaving 86 drowned. Twenty of the crew were also drowned, showing the total loss of life to be 106. Wellington, This Day. The Cable Company has decided to pass free all cablegrams connected with the "Wairarapa relief fund. Before Miss Flavall started off ou her perilous journey on the rope from the stenmer to the shore, she turned to Miss Paul, hfr fellow- Salvationist, and quoted from Isaiah •• When thonp'BS3B> through tho waters 1 will be with thee " It is to be feared that a full and correct list of all who perished in the wreck will uaver be compiled. While a little boy was struggling in the water, after being washed overboard from the Wirrarapa, a man swam up and took hold of him " Hold on to mo, I oy," he said, nnd es the lad clung to him, he struck out for the rocks. It was a long swim, and the rescuer grew weary. And then the little lad said these heroic words : "If you can't get me along, drop me." And tho panting rescuer, who was only a stowaway, answered, " No, my boy, if you go, I go," and struck out again.* Tho little boy was rescued and taken care of. So was his deliverer.