INTERESTING DETAILS. ONLY ONE SURVIVOR HEARD FROM.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 150, 17 April 1886, Page 4

INTERESTING DETAILS. ONLY ONE SURVIVOR HEARD FROM.

The p.s. Penguin left the Queen's Wharf at 11 30 for the scene of the wreck, having on board Captain Bendall, Marine Surveyor to the Underwriters' Association, Captain Williams, and a special reporter of the " Evening Post " It is believed there were two men, named respectively Smith and Harbord, booked on board. They were strangers in Wellington, and had been here attending the races. It appears that it was Sergeant Grant, not Constable McQuarters, who was saved. Captain Coleman has received the following telegram from the Sergeant, who has readied Kaikoura He Fays that so far as he knows he was the onlz passenger paved. Mr Ward was torpedo artificer. He recently arrived from England by one of the direct steamers under special engagement to the Government. He brought out his eldest son, aged about twelve years, and left his wife and other children (six) to follow him. He was a man of about 40 years of age. dergt. Grant of the A.C. was in the torpedo branch of the force, and had served as an officer in the British Isavy. He is believed to have been a single man. Const. Mac Quarters also belonged to the torpedo corps. He is a young man, and not long in the force.

List of Officers and Crew. So far as we have been able to learn the following officers and crew ■were on board : — Captain Thomson, chief officer, Mr Marktran ; second mate, Mr Powell ; ch»ef engineer, Mr Dalrymple ; purser, Mr K. Spooncr ; carpenter, Mr Evest, A.B.s : Messrs J. Mackay (single), P. Haneen (single), P. McMillan (single), D. Williams (single), J. McPhee (married), lamp trimmer, Mr D. Hill (married). Firemen : Messrs R Urwin (single), W. Morrison (single), J. Kane (married). There were also a boy, two firemen, the second engineer an A.8., and two oa three stewards whose names I have not as yet been able to ascertain. We are informed that two fireman of the Tairoa were named Robert" Ii win and John Kenn, both of Dunedin, the former single and the latter married.