The Tainroa Disaster

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1689, 20 April 1886, Page 2

The Tainroa Disaster

The Tiuiaru Herald has the following paragraph relating to the bereavement of a gentleman well-known here, for whom snch genuine sympathy is felt : — Among the sufferers by the Taiaroa disaster,- is Mr G. G. Fitzgerald, editor of this journal, whose wife perished m the wreck. The deceased lady was on her way from Wellington to join her hus--1 band m this town, with every expecta tion of resuming the domestic happiness which characterised their past married i life. Mr Fitzgerald, m anticipation of his wife's arrival, furnished a comfortable cottage, and made other preparations for her reception. The duelling bears the designation oi Tararua Cottage, and m furnishing it Mr Fitzgerald called to recollection the heart- rending calamity caused by the wreck of that steamer five years ago, and cherished a hope that no such disaster would occur to his wife. It was, however, a transitory hope, and when the telegrams announcing the wreck, came to hand, the shock was all but unbearable, as may well be conceived. Mra Fitzgerald was a most estimable lady, and highly esteemed by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance, arid these were many. The whole of her luggage having been lost, her husband possesses no memento of her, with the exception of two letters latelyreceived frotn her from Wellington, and this circumstance, of itself, intensifies his grief.