The Wreck of the Wairarapa.
(pre press association) Wellington, November 17. The general Wairarapa relief fund now amounts to LIO4O in addition to which the Evening Post list, amounting to L 173, swells the total to L 1213 It appears that Mr and Mrs Scoular were on the bridge of the Wairarapa when it was washed away. Mr Scoular was in the middle of a sentence, iv reply to a question put to him by his wife, when a huge sea struck the bridge and carried it and its occupants overboard. Gisborne Nov. 17. Thos. Baird, a passenger from England by the Austral, va* on board the Wairarapa bound for Gisborne, and is amongst the lost. His name does not appear on the passenger list.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 122, 19 November 1894, Page 2
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125The Wreck of the Wairarapa. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 122, 19 November 1894, Page 2
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