TRAGEDY IN AUCKLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1746, 29 June 1886, Page 2

TRAGEDY IN AUCKLAND.

SEARCH FOR THE MURDERERS.

THE ROWENA'B TRIP.

i (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) • Auckland, Mofiday.*. " The Star special op.boatdt the Row. ena, which is RuremDir ; "the Barrier murderers, report^ It^ait^tbey have searched all the coas|;ißl&uii)i, landing at Ports Fitzroy and Merorpmbie, where the residents had not heard of the mur- . der,. .TJUere is no trae* of the cotter Sovereign of ithei^eaii The search {»§ .-■till biihs prosecWdf :■ ...;U.-. ; i ii :> '' v rj B n*i7.,. „.,.. The Rowena returned from the search for the Great Barrier Island murderers' at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The steamer has had the full benefit of the heavy > south-west gale. After leaving the hair- ' bour, a little after iniduight on Wednesday, stfe steered, for Little Barrier Islind . She arrived there at daylight, and coasted round, that Island. On Friday she headed for the Tsfeedlesj the' Northern, point^ of Great Barrier, Island, where the steamer was met by a heary gile and a fog, and she had to drop off the] search and ran into. Port Abercromb,ie,' lying there about five hours, till late m the afternoon^ .She then on io Port^EitzroyfenUiinK that birb'or by jthe tiyirM 'pl&tgl TKe "steamer was detained all Friday night by stress of weather, and left by Governor's Passage, running down the west coast of the [island, and touching, at Wangaparpa harbor. She then ,went into Blind Bay^aod Tcyphena, the scene >of ■ Ulito murder. . Captain $ynb, master s of .the jciittir Tairua, and>Mr Seymour, who first took the news tojOoromandel, a were spoken to. They Tiadreturned'on Wednesday, and had seen nothing of -the culprits. 'The steamer' then went to Aria Island, that being the only place of shelter, and returned to Gape Barrier about A 2 o'clock. An attempt was then made-.to across to Port' Charles, bat the. steamer could not make headway against fthe strong gale, and Kad to return tor shelter, to the eastern, ilide of Gape Barrier. l The, Row«nA's|>iiead , was turned for Try phena or Miokland, bat she could not hold her otra, and Saturr ;day<waßßpent under the lea of the' island, where the Teasel wis kept going udder easy steam all night, there being no anchorage. The weather moderating on Sunday morning, she cam* on to Auckland. ■ . , ;