THE WRECK OF THE TARARUA. AID FOR THE BEREAVED FAMILIES. RECOVERY OF MOEE BODIES AND A MAIL BAG.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 110, 12 May 1881, Page 2

THE WRECK OF THE TARARUA. AID FOR THE BEREAVED FAMILIES. RECOVERY OF MOEE BODIES AND A MAIL BAG.

[united peess association.] Auckland, 11th May. A public meeting was held in the Pittstreet Wesleyan Church re fund for the families of the late Beys. Richardson and Armitage, and the sum of .£lO5 was subscribed. A committee wa3 appointed to collect subscriptions. The Eev. T. Buddie presided. The Revs. Dewsbnry and Olliyer and other gentlemen spoke. A resolution of sympathy with the bereaved families waa carried. Dttnbdin, 11th May. The Chief Postmaster to-day received a telegram from Invercargill, stating that the mail bag from Dnnedin to Melbourne had been recovered from the wreck of the Tararua, containing 100 letters and 21 registered letters. Nineteen of the letters can be delivered; the others are too much damaged. Wtnd^am, 11th May. The body of EyW. Jones, latepnrsor, was recovered yesterday afternoon, and identified by the namo- written on his shirt and a paper found on his body. Four more bodies were washed ashore to-day, two of them being headless. They were most fearful objects to behold, and, indeed, all the bodies now coming ashore are in a dreadful condition, and the police, who are compelled not only to handle them, but to examine them minutely in the hope of identification, deserve the greatest commiseration. There is a petition going the ronnds here for signatures, having for its object the establishment of a telegraph station at Fortrose, the nearest township to the soene of the disaster.