Further Particulars.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 296, 5 September 1888, Page 4

Further Particulars.

It has beon ascertained that the captain's name is Bayly. The survivor's name is yet unknown. He lies in an exhausted condition at a fifcherman'is hut near the scene of the wreck. The names of the other members of the crew are not yet known. One was not a e^ul.ir hand, but was working his passage.

The shipping register contains the names of two schooners called Colonist, one a vessel of 43 tons and the other registering 109 tons. Thesmaller vessel of fche two is known bo have been employed on the West Coast of the South Inland, and as there is no "ketch" called the Colonist in the shipping regislei she is doubtless the unfortunate craft referred to in the above telegram. Both the Colonist and her master are well-known in Auckland, the schooner having been built by Messrs Sim=i and Brown at this port in 3868. She is owned by E. A. Bailey and T. Bayley, both of Waitara. We learn from Mr J. D. Baker, at the Jubilee Steamship Company's office, who is w ell acquainted with the owners, that the captain's name is Edward Alfred Bailey, who is also part owner. Capt. Bailey is a brother-in-law ot Captain James Con way, of Auckland, and he leaves a wife and two children at Waitara, whither the Colonist wab bound when the fatal mishap occurred. Capt. Bailey has been engaged in the Waitaia tiade for the last ten years, He went trom Waitara to Lyttelton with a cargo o^ timber, and was on his way to We^tport to load coal for Waitara when the vessel was wrecked. The vessel was uninsured.