OFFICES STILL BESIEGED BY ENQUIRERS

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIV, Issue 24, 18 April 1912, Page 5

OFFICES STILL BESIEGED BY ENQUIRERS

THE LORD MAYOR'S SUGGESTION THE TITANIC'S BUILDER SPEAKS EUROPEAN LEGISLATURES MANIFEST SYMPATHY. (Received April 18, 1 p.an.) LONDON',- April 17. Pathetic scenes continue outside>the AV.hite Star offices, but the usual bookings are not being interrupted, and there has been no eaiicel'lation of passages. Fifty relatives staved outside the Cockspur-street offices all night. Wives and children' of the crew 'are crowding iat the Southa nip ton office at night, awaiting the names of those saved,-and crying and begging for information. Tlhe crowd includes five sisters, the husband of each o.f whom is aboard. There will be a memorial service «t St. Paul's on Friday. The Lord Mayor lias opened a. Mansion House fund. He .suggests that every newspaper dn the Kingdom should acknowledge donations, and in a. week they could probably ira.ise an adequate fund. There were 3000 sacks of mails on j the Titanic, including 1586 sficks from London. , Alexander Carlisle, the Titanic's •builder, opines, that if she struck on

the stem tlie masts have buckled, and it- would be impossible to send wireless messages. In futu.re vessels would probably have a smaller nitmiber of bulkheads, the doors of which wo,uld be closed a,t- sunset and opened at sunrise, and would have increased boat accommodation. The Parliaments of Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, *md Capetown passed' resolutions of sympathy in reference to the TitaJiic disaster. SYMPATHY AND RELIEF. LONDON, 'April 17. Many entertainments at Southampton have been abandoned. The Mayor has opened a relief fund for the families of the crew. Tho King and Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, and the Ivaiser, havo sent messages of condolence with the victims' relations. Tho newspapers are opening a relief fund. The amount to be paid by the owners in compensation to the relatives of tho drowned seamen is computed at £IOO,OOO. NEW YORK, April 17.

President Taft lias ordered the United States' cruisers Salem and Chester to proceed to the scene. AUSTRALIAN CONDOLENCES. (Received April 18, 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Lord Mayor of Sydney lias cabled, messages of condolence to the Mayor of New York, and the Lord Mayor of London on the, appalling international, loss of the Titanic'. FROM NEW ZEALAND. [l'rest Associa Hon, ] --- AUCKLAND, April 17. His Excellency tho Governor has despatched tho following message to the Secretary for the Colonies:--- , "My Government and the people pi New Zealand are deeply grieved at the Terrible catastrophe that has overtaken their i'i ;c:!d.s, both British and American in the loss of the Titanic. Kindly convey New Zealand's grief at the appalling loss of valuable lives." (Signed) Islington. ' DUNEDI V. April 17. Sir Jospoh Ward this afternoon cabled to Mr Asquith expressing his groat sorrow at the terrible loss of life occasioned by the foundering of the Titanic. HAWERA, This Day. I ' The Taranaki Executive of the Faimers' Union to-day passed a resolution of sympathy with the British and American, subjects in connection with tho foundering of the Titanic, and expressed its admiration of the action of the men on the steamer in upholding the best traditions of the sea. DUX ED IN READY TO SUCCOUR. DUNEDIN, This, Day. A Mammoth, benefit in aid of the Titanic sufferers was held at. Brydone Hall last night. Press Association ■ telegrams from s.Wanganui, Gisborne, and Auckland, report resolutions of sympathy in connection with the disaster. At Gisborne the Chamber of Commerce adjourned its meeting as an expresI si on of 'sympathy. At Auckland , his Excellency the Governor, in opening a branch of the . Overseas Club, A'oiced the deepest sympathy of the people of the Dominion with their fellow subjects in Great Britain and Canada, and also with the people of the United States, who were in many respects their kith and kin, The north wind blew- ; From Bergen my steol-shod vanguards go I chase your lazy whalers home from the Kisko Hoe By the great North Lights abve me, 1 work :the will of Cod, And the liner splits on the ice-field, or the Dogger fills with cod." —Kipling.