The Zulieka Wreck.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, April 22. The Tutanekat left for Palliser Bay with coffins in which to place the victims of the Zulieka wreck. The Rev. H. E. Tuckey was a passenger, having con. sented to go and read the funeral service. Mr Morley, from the firm of Briscoe, McNiel and Co , and Mr Carter, of H.M. Customs, also went away in her for tbe purpose of arranging for the recovery of some of the cargo. Mr Eraia, the Maori who owns land in tbe vicinity of the wreck, has given sufficient ground for tbe burial of the dead, and has undertaken to erect a tombstone if one is tent down. To day eight of the victims were buried in one grave The ninth, tbe body of Alexander McKay, will be forwarded to Port Chalmers.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 247, 23 April 1897, Page 3
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138The Zulieka Wreck. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 247, 23 April 1897, Page 3
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