THE WAIRARAPA DISASTER.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8964, 30 November 1894, Page 5

THE WAIRARAPA DISASTER.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, November 29.

The police have received the following property from the Barrier found on the beach:—A purse containing £2 6s 6d and a shearer's ticket, the property of David Hastie, a survivor, of Oamaru, believed to be now in the Napier district—hia brother Norman was among the drowned ; several documents and letters in tbe name of James Charles White from Sydney and Melbourne; a Post Office Savings Bank- book, No. 78002, in the name of Eliaa James, of Seacliffe, Otago. A dispute haa arisen as to the ownership of 133 sovereigns found on the body of George Bird, who was identified by Mr Johnston, the third officer of the Wai-' rarapa. Mrs Manderaon, of Westport, claimed the money on the statement of- two survivors, that they identify the bag in which the money was as that of Mr Manderson, and that Manderson should have had about 140 sovereigns, as they came from Coolgardie with bim» and knew him. ' Among the documents found ia a steerage ticket in the name of Wm. Johnston, aged ithirty-two, for the steamship Austral, aa enclosed cabin berth. Mrs Foster Brown, wife of a atereotypec in the Herald Office, has been identified as among those buried.

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