Later Particulars.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 151, 24 April 1886, Page 4

Later Particulars.

The latest information from tho scene of the wreck states that the vessel has now a furthor list to port ; that the seas are breaking over her fore and aft ; and that she is settling down in the gravel. The sea was very rough about the wreck this morning, but is going doA\n gradually. The weather is very thick, blowing freshly from S.W., with rain. When the Taiaroa left Wellington, there were 48 souls in all- 28 crow and 20 passengeis. Of this number, 14 have been saved, and 9 bodies recovered, thus leaving 25 bodies still to be accounted for. Mr Hutton, a passenger and one of the survivors who came ashore near the scene of the wreck, left la*t night for Wellington by tho Wakatu. Mr G. Fitzgerald, a relativo of one of the missing lady passengers, arrived from Flaxbourno this morning. He explored the beach between here and Flaxbourne, but found nothing but a bundle of life belt?, and some separately scattered about different parts of the beach. The latter he described as having been worn, as the strap3 were knotted together afc the back ; but the straps have burst away from the sides of the belts, and thus come away from the wearers. The bundles of belts are probably spare ones, usually placed in the boats for use in cas3 of passengers being compelled suddenly to take to the boats. Mr Fitzgorald, husband of the missing lady passenger, and editor of the "Tirnaru Herald," is expected by the Wakatu, leaving Wellington to - night, and which should reach here by daylight in the morning. Chief steward Fielder, of the Taiaroa, the one who was saved in the captain's gig, is also expected for the purpose of identifying the bodies before they are buried. Graves have already been prepared, and the bodies will probably be interred here to-inorrow, after identification, by the Rev. Mr McAra, Presbyterian minister from Kaikoura, and Rev. Mr Grace, of the Church of England, Blenheim. It is not yet certain if the chief officer's body can be conveyed to Blenheim for interment, as requested by bis friends. The bodies now lying at Woodbank will, in all probability, be interred there to-inorrow, and the body of Mr Vallance, found at Flaxbourne, will be buried atthat station, unless his brother, who left for that place this morning, can remove it to Canterbury. So far as can be seen, there is no means of conveying the bodies over the rough country between here and Blenheim, a distance of 56 miles.