NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, 30 December 1918, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

AUCKLAND ITEMS. AUCKLAND, this day. Clarence Lewis, aged 30, died ai the hospital on Saturday night as a result of injuries sustained on December 22 through falling on a hayfork while harvesting. A youth named Allan Sherman has been missing from the residence of his aunt, Mrs Smith, Waitakere, since Thursday morning, when he went out with a double-barrelled gun. No trace of him has been found. BURNING OF THE ARYAN. WELLINGTON, this day. The Secretary of the General Post Office supplies the following further particulars of the Aryan. It is reported that a passenger, BaTraud, is one of the occupants of the sfill missing boat. Other, passengers and mails were landed at Kaiangaroa. The particulars promised by the Customs officer who returned from Kaiangaroa at 9.30 last evening are not yet forthcoming. PARTICULARS OF THE ARYAN WELLINGTON, this day.

The Barque Aryan, which was burned at .sea, loaded 1,400 casks pelts and tallow, 5000 bales of flax ■(valued £65,450) 670 cases of preserved meats (valued £26,000), 229 sacks kauri gum (valued £525). The hemp was shipped by A. S. Paterson and Co., Levin and Co., and by an Auckland firm, J. Burns and Co. The shippers of pelts and tallow were W and K. Fletcher and Co. Ltd., (Auckland), Eotrhe and Sons and L. S. Maxwell and Co. The preserved meats were shipped by W. and R. Fletcher Ltd.; the kauri gum was shipped by Maxwell and Co. Cargo came from Oamaru, Timaru, Wanganui, Napier Lyttelton, and Wellington. The crew of the vessel when she left Wellington consisted of twenty-two persons most of whom are foreigners from Northern Europe, as follows: Captain H. Larsen; first mate, Charles Graham ;, boatswain, P: Ryan; ''carpenter, A. Danielson; A.B.'s Harold Tronkjohn, Lindol G. Jameson, H. Stiffcnson, H. iLundrgeen, Henry Dill, J. Meisnersen, J. A. Dundik, T. Teodorson, G-. L. Yung, H. 'Silverleaf,: Emil Anderson, James Geo. Jack, Wilson. Ordinary seamen: T. M. Milles, _T. Barraud; cook, Charles Vanderslys; stewardess, Mrs F. L. Vandersluys. The official list of the crew included Sergeant-Major Vandersluys. his wife, Knowles (of Taranaki) and Barrand (of the local office of Levin and Co.), who signed on articles in order to make the trip. There is a good jlcal of anxiety as to whether they arc amongst those who landed, at Chathams, .and a wireless message of inquiry was sent.- The answer, 'came back that it is not yet known who are amongst survivors, as two boats containing them landed on ...the opposite side of the island to..' that on which wireless is situated. A relief expedition is setting out. The owner of the Aryan is ■L. A. Jederson, . of San Francifeco. The insurances are not known. This was the vessel's first visit to New Zealand. She is one of the largest American sailing ships which has visited this port.

FURTHER PARTICULARS WELLINGTON, this day The following additional 'particulars are supplied by the Secretary of the Post Office: —The names of those landed at Kaingaroa are H. Galmar, Larcsen, Master Patrick Ryan, Bosun J. Pcnsen, Henry /stifl*onsen, Hjalmar Luivigscn, John Meissnersen, Gustive Ljoug, Henry Silverleaf, Emil Anderson, Frank I. Montague Mills, Charles » Vandersluys, F. L. Vandcrsluys (female). All are quartered at Kaingaroa station. The first mate's boat has not yet been picked up. The names of the missing are C. Graham, first mate; Master Henry D. W. Sidney Mowbray, Barraud, James Elo, Jack 'Wilson, A. Danielson, Harold Trovik, .and G. F. Lindel. The boat was last spoken on the evening of the 24th, when it was instructed to steer a course for the Chathams. She has provisons and instruments. At 5 p.m. yesterday the captain was still hopeful and said if she missed the island she would cot north, and should be somewhere west of the Cathanis, but during the night a strong westerly gale was blowing. Locally the worst is feared. The fire was first discovered in the flax cargo between decks, at 2 a.m. on the 24th (ship's time). The ship was abandoned at 11.30 a.m.. in approximately latitude 45 soutfip longitude 171.1 ft west same day.