MARAROA'S LONG TRIP

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 188, 9 August 1924, Page 7

MARAROA'S LONG TRIP

I ,i'.y Telegraph. -Prews A**o<>iatiuu.l ! CHRISTCIirRCHT. Friday. The ferry steamer Mararoa arrived at Lyttelton at 3.20 p.m. to-day alter a. passnge from Wellington laslinj just on eighteen and a-luilf hours. On leaving Wellington the leseel ran into a moderate rontherly pale w.t.i hi.-h sea*, which lon'inuPtl liiiii! slip reaebc'! Kaikoura, pa=sina whi.-h point ->iie encountered a .-;rnii_ r -"-.-, -w.-.-t Mind and a coTisidpia'jlo . ...ill -.■; -: -well. The weather duvhu lUe treat-r portion of tin- V...-.Hi.v «a< "ns ilii'.k as mud," to use tie word-* of the captain. DOUBT ABOUT PitSSEKGERS. iK.v Tcleitrapli. l'roF.-: A« ■■ WKLI.TXi'.TiiV. li.is day. Doubt still exists whether tien- v.ore two pnsFPr..u'i , rs on the Rjppl». Tho'-n are Mr. I. K. Taylor ard Mr. 1 , . Loiulaii. Mr. Tayior U acr-ount-iiit to A. 1). TVile'y mvl f'i... of ' ton. iird wa« mnrrie'l, with a grown-up I family. Mr. Taylor served in the Great j War. He was :i powerful swimmer, hut suffered from poor health as the result of war inj'irU , -. lie booked on Wednesday, and i- lielipved to have joined t! c ?hi]> ft t-e time of Mr. Lendan l>ooke;l fir Xapier on Tuvsdav. hut it is nnoerinin what hi- moveinciiis wore afterwards. His plan , of ip«iileiici> is unknown. Tiio ship carrio.l the larsrest ear o f r i-.:..i;t'..-. tohdlina 4.">0 tons, lj.it no njaehiiicry or motor ears. nUXEDIX, this day. Mr. R. V,. Taylor, who is paid tn hr.ye lifon a passenger by the Ripple, was formerly a resident of St. Kilda, Dunerlin. and was a inomber of a lwal bowling club. Ho is married, and is a sen of the Rev. Robert Taylor, Methodist minister. lie lias two daughter*.