UNKNOWN FURTHER PARTICULARS, (From the New Zealand HeraLd)

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 271, 5 February 1874, Page 2

UNKNOWN FURTHER PARTICULARS , (From the New Zealand HeraLd)

I { Tl-1 (imiht r-rnvn-i timt tin cutter l->st ci tlie M tnuk.HU Lar, on Mondni 'ii< rnnig, vas tlit» Kloru M.ici.imiid, Cii.it J L. K'-nnv. 'Vip<vh i I «:»ck )• ive hern pu'kp'i im win)* flout 11 « about, wlni'li have lu'tn idi'iinlud in (Jnt'iiungM aa beU'iinmg to Lin? >■ «sd Nj )io, ls h•« out tj * 11 -d i.>r the Bif.-lT of cit l cr the rrtjw or [ms-'iM'^cio us all wrrc hu allowed up by J lie sea at. the turn- of the sir! i"it:isi io]>in> Their nami's mo:- J 1- Kciiin, AUrei'. Powill \m?h,iuuii), lioberl Wii!iam-on (liul>. Fim'ii.piN : — J. Gui'iniii, hott!te^pfr of R,ntlnn ;]' Johii«ou. lialfon-te; f J . Unlvin, Jad jon of Air T. Galven, blacksmith, of Raglan j — Robertbon, 1 ite'r »i I'ivp:! froai Eiirlhu'l ; iiud n littl»'|»i-I nnnpi! Pliill.ps,' daughter of Mr J. Phillips, of Raglan Tyro other ihildren were obsoived on board the cutter *limt).y before *be lnftOneliun»a,butit >» nt present nncertniu whether they passciigero bj lit-r. We are mioiuied that although Mr Hiusi-r liar! booked a passage by tie vrsfol, lie forlunatelj remnined behind Y^tfwdavthf putter R-\ncatira hvousjlji m f. | ■!«•<» of »v mast described as the pillow of the crosstrees which was picked upon Monday e^ eningoff the Huia. This was ideniied by Mr Q-eorge D ■•an as haviug belonged to tne tlora Alacuon"ld Tt vrf« »\fn shewn to Mr Vause, the builder of the ruttur Dawn, \rLo Ub ouue Bluteu tLut it did not belong to ilielaLt.-i ->c- '1, ph it was pain teci. whereas that belonging lo tho Da\ ii '.us \& Disced. A ten-gullori rtiiter ki>ij was .ilho found floating ofl' Poponpa, by a man named Smith, who took it to Wuikawui. Tne d( scuptun i>f t lie ke.; answers to that belonging to the Flora Macdonald. No bodies have as yet beon picked up. Captain Wing left vestprdny movnui? in his boat in tow of the Wellington to the scene of the dis«wter. in tbp lto['M of being üblo to be of -iowo service, but had not returned to Onehunga at the tune of our reporter leu ting foi town. W'th re^ird to tbo ■ni ln'ic'ioly ncoid^ut h} which human beinsr* found a >vuter\ grave, wi? may remark that although tiiu bur was xignallcd us dangerous at tin- time ol Capt Kenny endeavouring to erosh it. ho iv all prubtth lity had no alternative but to rm l\v His vp i <l ««^«vulentlv jammed down, md it wae inijinspihle tor him to have fctoott out to «a, tho (>ire' m«Hnce^ with a jailing vewl are so ditt'eruiit from a ftpnnier, and no blame should theretore bo attached to tho memory of tho m«m nn having repklp«slv exposed his vessel and the hvos unHcr Ins charge In sll probability the lp'msniuii was unshod from the tiller by one of the umnense i'ollt»i->, and before hp could recover himoulf the cutter bnmnhp'l j>ll orer on her bpam-piids, and sank. It was the work of u fc«" moments, and although übup.'vpd by the s'gnnlmun from thp heifjlits above, no human nid was possibli* to save the lnus of those on board. "Tho waters fomp.isM.-d them about, and tho doptbu clobed them round .\bout."