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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 11, 1 June 1914, Page 5

Price and -Miss Tcwnshend. Of these, all were drowned, except Miss Townshend. Mrs. Wynn-Price is the aunt of Miss Townshcnd. NEW ZEALAND SALVATIONISTS. NONE AMONG THE VICTIMS. Wellington, Saturday. So far as is known Brigadier Annette | Paul and Envoy Mrs. Underwood were , the only members of the Salvatiou Army in New Zealand who went home via Ameriea, and as they intended visit- i ing the United States en route it. is , considered unlikely that they were on , the ill-fated Empress of Ireland. News was received here last Monday of the safe arrival in London of Commissioner Richards and the New Zealand delegates. They went by the Orient liner Oraovn. THE 111jOOMFIELDS. Auckland, Saturday. Colonel W. 1!. Bloomfield, wife, and daughter wero passengers by the Empress of Ireland. They left Auckland on April on a twelve months' tour. Colonel Bloomfield is a barrister and solicitor and formerly practised in Auckland, lie was very well known in hunting and territorial circles, and took a prominent part in various local bodies. His wife was a well-known society leader. Father Point, the scene of the disaster, is on the south coast of the estuary of the St. Lawrence, about 200 miles from Quefcec. The St. Lawrence at this point is 30 miles wide. SALVATION ARMY'S LOSS. Wellington, Last Night. The national headquarters of the' Salvation Army at Wellington to-day received a cablegram from the international headquarters, London, stating that over 100 officers and soldiers had been lost on tho Empress of Ireland! The officers who perished include Commissioner and Mrs. Rees (Canadian commanders), Colonel and Mrs. Maidment (Canadian chief secretary),'' Brigadier Scott-Potter, Major and Mrs. Pindlay, Major and Mrs. Creighton, Mrs. Major Simooe, and thirty other officers; also the Canadian Staff Band, and Brigadier and Mrs. Hunter, who were on furlough in Canada from India. References were made to the disaster in all the churches to-day. At the conclusion of service at St. Mary's Church last nigat, Chopin's "Funeral March" was played. Reference to tho great loss sustained by the Salvation Army by the disaster was made at the local Salvation Army Barracks yesterday.