COOLNESS AND COURAGE. EIGHT BODIES RECOVERED.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 226, 29 October 1887, Page 4

COOLNESS AND COURAGE. EIGHT BODIES RECOVERED.

Farther particulars of tho wreck of the s.s. Cheviot state ifoct the captain "behaved splendidly, and that the passengers and crew showed great ccolcess. Eight bodies have bsen recovered from the wreck. The latest accounts give the number of the saved at twenty whilst thiity. nine are said to have been drowned.

The Cheviot was an iron screw steamer of 1,226 tons gross, and 764 tons net register. She was built at Low Walker, Newcastle, England, by C. Mitchell and Co. in 1870. Her engines are registered as 120 horse power, and are by T. Clarke jfc Co., of New castle. Since her arrival in the colonies she had been employed in the coasting trades of Victoria and New South Wales. She was owned by Messrs Wra. Howard Smith asid.Sons (Limited), of Melbourne, to whose order she had been built. The following are the names of the steerage "passengers drowned in .the wreck of the steamer Cheviot off Melbourne Heads :—: — Mrs Baker Mrs Clayton Mrs Davis Mrs Peers Miss OBrien Robert Jefiry Edmund 0 s Kelly Laurence Morrie Arthur Goodliffo W. Foster J. Hunt J. Parland It is doubtful whether the list is complete, and possibly there may be one or two others vet to add.

London, October 20. In the course of an address at the Liberal Conference now sitting at Not iiugham, Mr Gladstone said that the present political indications justified him in hoping and expecting that the Liberals would resume power. In that case their first duty would be to reverse the Irish policy of the Tory Government.

A Boston lady attended a funeral in a country chr. -eh a short time ago, and after the singing uf a hymn which was striking, melodious and appropriate, a rustic male friend who was seated beside her remarked 11 with. an air of intense local pride : "Beaus #ful hymn, isn't it 1 The corpse wrote it."