TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 941, 7 May 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondents).

Fire in Auckland.

Auckland, May 6. Bed W-l’s Brewery has been burned down. The insurance on the building, stock and machinery were : National, £1,000; New Zealand, £l,OOO ; Standard, £9OO. At Buckland’s sale to-day, fodder was plentiful. Meadow hay, 2s 6d to 4s Id, oaten hay, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; carrots, 2s 6d ; mangolds, 2s 6d ; turnips, Is 3d per cwt. ; rye grass, 4s 3d per bushel. A large number of horses were yarded, consisting principally of medium and heavy draught stock, and although the bidding was dull, nearly all the lots were quoted at satisfactory prices.

Wreck of the Tararua.

A Thrilling Story. (BY AN EYE WITNESS.) Wyndham, May 6. The following is the story of Frank Deuz, a seaman who was saved : I married in

Auckland two years and a half ago, and had one child 15 months old. I persuaded my wife to visit Melbourne. The Company let me take her at half price. When she came on board Captain Garrard came forward and said to her “ I’ll give you the other half of the fare and you can buy a new dress with it.” Poor girl, she never got it. When we got to Port Chalmers my wife and Mary Kelly went to Dunedin ; I waited for them to come by the 3 o’clock train ; I wish to the Lord I had left them, at 6 o’clock the man who had been at the wheel before me relieved me for a few minutes to get some coffee. the coffee and came out. Directly the ship struck she was full almost at once. My wife, Mary Kelly, and another woman clung to me naked The back wash of the sea that broke over the vessel carried us right a,ft. The women all screamed at first, but some were brave and believed us when we said there was no danger They were put in the smoking house and covered, I put a rug and my jacket on my wife, j . A Brave Woman ! Mary Kelly would not’ go into the house but helped with the ropes, and seemed to wish to encourage the men, but they were not afraid, they made only the same noise as ever you would have thought to hear them. I swear they could not think I Was more afraid than the rest, but my wife kept clinging "tb me, and that made me weak. The Capt. was cross, and scolded me, but*l could not push her away at such a time. I wish to God I had taken my churn’s advice, and. put her and the child in the 2nd mate’s boat, then I would not have to look for them on the beach. When tjie carpenter was ordered out of the boat for the mate to take charge, he said “ Thank God I’m safe.” The ship was the safest place then if the wind had not come up She would have been there yet. The men complained of one of the hands in the boat, he was afraid of getting wet, and kept looking for eaich sea, and shifting life 'stroke, when the Captain had him hoisted out, he also said “ I praise God I’m out of her.” I was ordered to take his place. I was crying, as I could not; bear leaving my wife ?. A Father’s Grief. Then the Captain persuaded me,, and held his arms for the'child. I gave her to him, arid said, “ Now Captain, you’ll look after her won’t you ?” He said, “ Yes, Frank, I will be sure of that.” I tied baby’s hood-on; this is it (holding up a little blue hood) ; I found it on the beach. I tied this’shawl (holding it up) round my wife, and lashed it on with two manilla yarns. See how it is torn with the Washing off. That is all that is left to me now. I would not take £5O for those two things. I had £ll and a Watch; I gave them to her to make her feel safe, and so that she would have something if I was drowned. A Wife’s Confidence. She cried out to the other women, “ Don’t be afraid, Frank will save us ; he is going in the boat.” She thought I could do anything, poor girl. I think I hear her: now. Our boat was 24 feet long, but upset end over end. and not sideways, that will show how the sea was. We all got ashore, but the boy who cleaned the brass on the ship said, just before we upset, “ I believe its through me that the vessel struck, for I’m very unlucky.” I daresay those on board thought it very hard that we did not come back, but they saw the fix we were in; I would have gone back to the wife, if I had been sure of being lost, perhaps I would not now, but all that day I vowed and prayed as I had never done- in my life before. I prayed for her, and then ran again to the point to see if there was a steamer coming from the Bluff. The Captain sent the women forward ; he had my little girl in his arms. .When the cook came ashore he told me that Mary Kelly was washed off at tht same time as himself ; he tried bis best to save her, but could not. Dr. Campbell was setting the engineer’s leg, and was washed off at the time. Long before dark all the women were drowned, and all the children but my child; the Captain was in the rigging.; there were about 40 men in the rigging. I kept my eye on them as it grew dark, and the last thing I saw was the Captain holding my little girl; I am sure he died with her in his arms ; but he could not save her—“ No, it was not to be ; it was not to be,” and, playing with the little blue hood, the sailor sobbed audibly. The above is not colored, but only arranged a little. Please say where you get this.- — P. W. Fairclough, Wesleyan Minister.