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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 207, 21 July 1893, Page 2

During the last trip of the mail steamer Monowai irom Sydney a passenger named Solomon jumped overboard. The engines were at once stopped and in a very short space of time a lifeboat was speeding towards the spot where the body was last seen, in charge of the third officer. The first search over the watery waste revealed nothing, but on returning to the steamer the boat was diracted to another spot where a flock of albatrosses riding on the waves boded no good to the drowning man. The fears engendered by the presence of the sea birds proved only too true, for when the rescue party reached Solomon his head and face were found to have been terribly mutilated by the voracious gulls. Nevertheless the man was still alive but insensible, and life was not extinct when the body was handed over to the ship’s doctor for treatment. The spark of vitality, however, did not last very long, and within an hour of his rescue the man expieed,