THE Mararoa in a Storm A TERRIFIC SEA. PASSENGERS WASHED OVERBOARD. Sydney, October 9,

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 307, 13 October 1888, Page 4

THE Mararoa in a Storm A TERRIFIC SEA. PASSENGERS WASHED OVERBOARD. Sydney, October 9,

The steamship Mararoa, from Auckland, on approaching the coast on Sunday, encoun. tered a teriffic gale with a fearful sea. At half-past three o'clock in the afternoon yesterday (Sunday) she was struck suddenly by a wave of unusual magnitude. The passengers on the hurricane deck were uneble to escape, and weie hurled in all directions. Mrs Henderson, infant, and child were carried overboaid and drowned. Another child of Mrs Hendersons was caught by the rail and being suspended there till the vessel righted, was rescued. Messrs White and Herbert, passengers, each sustained a fractured leg. Jones, a seaman, also had his leg broken. Several other passengers sustained sevei-e bruises. The wave struck the vessel in the after part, and she listed over the vast body of water carrying all before it.

THE DROWNED PASSENGERS, From inquiries we have made there appears to be very little doubt that the lady who met with her deatli under the sad circumstances narrated in the cablegram wasa former resident of Auckland. She was the wife of Mr Henry Henderson, an upholsterer in Auckland, who recently proceeded to Ballarat, where he is now carrying on business. Mrs Henderson left with her three children in the Mai'aroa last week in order to join her husband. She is well-known in Auckland, and piior to her marriage was a Miss Froude, her father being Air David Froude, of Surrey Hills. Mr Henry Henderson is a brother of Mr John Henderson, painter, of Wyndham-street. The hurricance deck on the Mararoa runs the full length of the vessel, and the second cabin is situated in the after part. None of the saloon passengers sustained any injury.