LATER.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4374, 16 February 1909, Page 2

LATER.

■Wellington, last night. It is believed, from the position, that three of the boats which left the Penguin were in tact until they got into the surf. They then capsized not far from shore. This is further borne by out by the api earance of (the bodies. The dea l bodies are not biuised. Nearly all the corps are much injured about the head and the face in some cases covered blood, showing what a stern fight for life must have taken place in dark hours of that wild night among the' bristling rocks, which stand up like needles along the shore. One pathetic incident happened on the beach : a searcher lifted a blanket from the face or" a dead woman. It was not the one he wanted, but a man standing by exclaimed “That’s My Wife.”